Word: paint
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...easy close-range finishes, including a thunderous dunk. A couple of timeouts weren’t enough to stop the bleeding, as Cougar forward Stanley Jackson brought the packed John Kreese Arena crowd to its feet with an up-and-under dunk—its sixth basket in the paint in the first three minutes...
...Harvard was out-muscled inside the whole match, losing the rebounding battle 48-36 and getting outscored in the paint...
...team, we have to be tougher in the paint,” Norman added. “We just need toughness right now across the board...
There’s a new painting up in the modern and contemporary gallery of the Fogg. Or perhaps “painting” is too strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself...
...back at the Kline after realizing this about the Pollock, I noticed something I had completely missed before; the encaustic wasn’t all black, but was split into two zones, one of black and one of dark gray. Where the two tones met, the knobby protrusions of paint had a dark top and lighter bottom as if they had been carefully shaded to emphasize their three-dimensionality, and this lent the piece a shimmering, optical quality that presented an intruiging and suprisingly subtle contrast to the fugus-like materiality of the paint itself...