Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tiny (pop. 636) town of Barellan swelters in the middle of the hot wheat plains of New South Wales, Australia. The house on the edge of town is a ramshackle old weatherboard structure with peeling paint, broken-down cars in the yard and a scruffy pack of yapping mongrels constantly in earshot. The inside is something else again-a blinding panoply of glittering trophies. The house is the family home of Evonne Goolagong, 19, a shy, attractive aborigine; the trophies are for tennis, and there are unquestionably more to come...
Eventually, Schwitters escaped to Scotland on a ship with his son and spent 16 months in British internment camps. The camp officials humored him. They let him cut up the kitchen linoleum to paint on, since there was no canvas. Later he settled in the Lake District, produced an uninterrupted stream of work that nobody much wanted, and died in obscurity in 1948, a few months short of his 61st birthday...
...Schwitters was one of the dozen most influential artists of this century. Everyone who has made assemblages, from Joseph Cornell to Robert Rauschenberg, is in some degree indebted to him. His concept of the "all-enveloping" work of art that could draw on a whole range of media, from paint and sculpture to architecture, sound and print, hovers behind all recent experiments in mixed media. Like Max Ernst, Schwitters is the "classical" Dadaist who destroyed nothing and became instead a kind of stylistic oracle. There have been a number of Schwitters retrospectives to cement the fame Schwitters himself never lived...
Management reaps the benefits of a more diligent work force and sharply lower training costs-all of which shows up in productivity. Interstate of Braintree, Mass., a manufacturer of paint rollers, found that its labor costs dropped 2% after the company adopted a four-day week. Sometimes whole communities are helped. The 151-man Huntington Beach, Calif., police force went on a four-day schedule a year ago; since then the rate of increase in crime has been cut in half-partly because the policemen's ten-hour shifts overlap during the high-crime hours...
...wave rises in the Maine sea and its sharp volume displaces air; Marin painted the wind as visibly as he drew the belly of a sail or the prow of a boat. Such abstraction as went on in his paintings was solely designed to clarify these clashings and peakings of force and substance, to turn it all into paint-"paint wave a'breaking on paint shore." He had instinctively hit upon the same vision of nature that produced the interlocking solidity of Cubist space, but he applied it to landscape in a fluid and dynamic way that bore very...