Word: paint
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...does an annual survey of holiday buying habits. Of course, the same can be said of Halloween. Once an occasion when children were sent out to practice the fine art of extortion on the neighbors, Halloween is fast becoming an excuse for adults in feathered masks and body paint to indulge in public foreplay. Already costumes are almost de rigueur, replacing even airline uniforms. I know this because I spent last Halloween evening between planes in a major hub airport, feeling distinctly awkward in slacks and blazer because the ticket agent was a playful witch and the devil himself...
Dove was the first American, and possibly the first artist of any nationality, to paint a nonrepresentational picture. He did a set of five tiny Abstractions in 1910-11, perhaps a little before Kandinsky's first abstract compositions. Daringly radical for their time, today some of these look not so abstract after all: Abstraction No. 1 reads like a landscape, with sky at top, hills and what appears to be a tower pierced by a window. When Dove talked and wrote about abstraction, what did he mean? Not pure abstract form, certainly. Nature was of absolutely paramount importance...
...painting always had an organic basis. Sometimes he called it extraction rather than abstraction. He described the process to a friend in 1913: "The first step was to choose from nature a motif in color, and with that motif to paint from nature, the form still being objective. The second step was to apply this same principle to form, the actual dependence on the object... disappearing, and the means of expression becoming purely subjective. After working for some time in this way, I no longer observed in the old way, and...began...to remember certain sensations purely through their form...
...What makes the situation so terrible is that Eric was a wonderful person," said Sam Rosaldo '98. "He was a part of the '95 and '96 summer programs, and in '97 he became a junior counselor. I remember that he loved to paint, and he was a terrific artist," Rosaldo said. "I still have one of his paintings on my wall here at Harvard...
...Party grandees are falling over themselves to denounce the treaty, and paint Gore ? who showed his spirit at Kyoto Sunday ? as an extremist. You can tell it's a campaign issue when Steve Forbes comes out of the woodwork: the once-and-future presidential wannabe called Kyoto "an unprecedented government seizure of American freedom and sovereignty." Jack Kemp, still smarting from the '96 Veep debate, described it as "dangerous...