Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy in 1960, he has alternated between practicing law in New London, Conn., and working for Nixon. Skilled at negotiation, he is so self-confident that this week he is going ahead with a planned vacation in Connecticut, where he will give his house a coat of price-frozen paint...
...reality he chose tips and squashes itself against the picture plane. A whole historical style is predicted in the vibration and flicker of yellow light on the water, the excited scribbles round the lily pads, and the deliberately blank areas of canvas that shine white against the effervescent paint...
...brothel area. After the Civil War, most of the district was razed. Warehouses were built. By happy circumstance, it was just when New York architects were discovering the possibilities of cast iron in a facade. Today the buildings are cavernous and filthy, half-empty, with successive impastos of paint flaking from their arched windows and delicate, rusting Corinthian capitals. But SoHo is a kind of museum of the style, containing some of the best buildings that were made within that idiom anywhere in the 19th century-strong-boned, forthright in detail, free of pomp and fuss...
Tourist Object. This might seem harmless enough. But inflated prices feed a numbness back onto art itself. The Impressionist and old master market has been big news for so long now that nobody can look at a Monet without seeing in front of that exquisite paint a wall of dollar signs. The hedge against inflation inevitably becomes a hedge against perception. Its price has made the painting different, of an order other than art. Museums, which should resist this syndrome, tend to exploit it. Thus the Metropolitan got untold mileage out of the fact that it paid...
Pusey cited as "specific examples" the fact that "some express rhapsodic concern for the environment, and spread pollution wherever they go. Some march and chant, smash windows, steal and misrepresent, burn automobiles and buildings, tack posters on trees, spray-paint walls and public monuments, break down bushes, trample grass by the roadside...