Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homer did not simply view the sea as a danger. His sea pieces, even when the weather is bad, are seductive. The paint is of great richness, beautifully manipulated, running the gamut from thin, subtle glazes to expansive slathers of opaque pigment. And there is often a character of apparition: things are stranger than you imagine, though you believe he saw what he saw--witness the heads of the Gloucester fishermen appearing from the wave that hides their dory in Kissing the Moon, 1904, or the breaking wave on the rocks in West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, that flings...
...Realism of both Courbet and Manet. But he had no facility at all; the impression given off by his early style couillarde--his "ballsy style," as he called it--is of a thwarted, tumultuous, half-articulate imagination bashing against the limits of its own abilities. He produced dark, macabre paintings of murders and orgies whose motivation, despite the guignol of their subject matter, remains as mysterious as their muddy paint and overladen black tonalities...
Early Cezanne the stumblebum turned into one of the finest manipulators of paint who has ever lived. Perhaps manipulator is the wrong word--it suggests trickery, whereas in Cezanne the relation between the paint surface and the imagined surface of the object (a rock, the side of a house, an apple) is astonishingly direct and candid. This doesn't come across in reproduction. It rises from the paint itself, that discreet paste in which every trace left by the brush seems to help create the impression of solidity, so that you feel you could pick the apple--which is both...
Kerry went to great lengths to associate Weld with the extreme conservatism of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), while Weld tried to paint Kerry as part of a stagnant Washington regime...
...thus a violation of the constitutional requirement of due process of law. In a 5-to-4 ruling, the high court threw out a $2 million damage award to an Alabama man who bought a new $40,000 BMW 535i without knowing that it had a slightly spruced-up paint job. BMW said it spent $601.37 to retouch the 1990 sedan after it had been damaged in shipping. But an Alabama jury awarded the plaintiff $4,000 in the 1992 case for loss of value and tacked on an additional $4 million in punitive damages, which the state supreme court...