Word: paint
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...moonlit evening sky and a latticework of bare black trees dwarf two figures in white fancy dress. It looks like a dreamscape, and the picture's title, A Carnival Evening, just adds to the enigma. The atmospheric, accomplished work could have been painted yesterday. In fact it's dated 1886, and was one of the first works shown in public by French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). The artist's flat, hard-edged style and singular imagination owed nothing to anybody. His pictures could be ordinary or outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious...
...listing, Britain's highest designation for historic buildings. A combination of heritage funds, corporate donors and private benefactors paid for the $6 million rehabilitation. "There is not a single level corner in this house,'' director M?rcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through examination of old paint layers...
...hardest things to portray in fiction is the creative process; it's more interesting to watch, say, Jackson Pollack empty a whiskey bottle than a tube of paint. But somehow, this gimmicky, bitchy, wonderful reality show pulled it off, by challenging a set of aspiring fashion designers to do things like make a garment out of products from a grocery store (the corn-husk dress won). Unlike so many reality game shows, Runway actually cast intelligent, interesting creative people interested in doing good work in their field rather than media whores out to become future Style channel hosts...
...game tonight,” captain Matt Stehle added. “It was good to see Drew doing what he can do, getting to the line and penetrating.” With 9:19 remaining in the contest, Long Island forward Paska Morkeliunas tossed Stehle aside in the paint, picking up his fourth foul of the game. Morkeliunas was awarded a technical foul in the aftermath, and Stehle hit both of the free-throws to put the Crimson ahead 64-53. Stehle finished with a career-high 27 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double...
According to Melinda S. Rodriguez ’07, this freedom of choice creates a relaxed atmosphere where “you can paint anything you want.” Lydia C. Conklin ’06 agrees, adding that the class’s structure allows the students to be on their own personal schedules and paint according to their interests, as mutable as they...