Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just when it seemed that life was about over for Sanford Darling, it started all over again. It happened one day when Darling, already 68 years old, was standing on his front lawn, trying to decide what color to paint his house. He stood there stooped, red-faced and wrinkled from a not very eventful life: a poor, fatherless adolescence; ten restless years as a chiropractor, a calling that he gave up because the hours were too long; 27 years as a technician for Mobil Oil, interrupted by frequent golf and fishing trips; the death, on his retirement...
...that he repeated it the following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling had found a new career...
Beguiling Maidens. "Anything that was flat, I painted a picture on," recalls Darling, his blue eyes glowing. On his pitched roof, he painted an impressionistic harbor scene with sailboats, white mountains and a shining lighthouse that can be seen two blocks away. He soon discovered that the compressed cardboard backs of old television sets had just the right absorptive quality for the semigloss house paint he favored; he painted scenes on as many of these cardboard backs as he could get his hands on, and mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went...
When ships are run by computers that can plot the course, set the speed according to sea conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely...
Priapic Swagger. Unlike the Impressionists, Gauguin did not paint what he saw: he chose to see what he wanted to paint. And his ideas on what was paintable grew out of other art-from the broad color patches and rhythmic line of Japanese cloisonne and wood block prints, from rural Breton sculpture and the flattened, monumental figures of a French artist he greatly admired, Puvis de Chavannes. Style absorbed him -not only the priapic swagger and ebullience of his own lifestyle, but the pervasive feedback of art style into nature. Even the fierce colors which scandalized some of his contemporaries...