Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the event seriously. Government staffers went among the crowd chatting with youngsters, inviting some of them back to their offices to meet their superiors. Even Attorney General John Mitchell, with his distaste for dissenters, entertained a group of demonstrators. Later the Justice Department was the target of a paint-throwing attack...
...largest painting in the world," Artist Yaacov Agam calls it. That may be something of an overstatement.* And Agam's work is certainly not in the same dimensional league (or medium) as Stone Mountain. But it no doubt seemed large enough to its creator. Involved, after all, were five months of 8-hour days with the aid of ten assistants, 592 sheets of aluminum base, each mounted at a 60° angle to the wall, 1,000 Ibs. of paint in 347 different colors and a whopping cost of $100,000. Whatever its physical qualifications, Agam's gargantuan...
...Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
...demonstrators outside, and guards pushed others from the lobby. When flying beer bottles shattered glass doors and windows, 60 city policemen wearing gas masks formed a skirmish line to clear the entrance. About 300 demonstrators, many of them stripped to the waist and daubed in red and white grease paint, managed to get inside. They shouted demands that Chairman James H. Binger accept their nominations for directors. The Rev. William Grace, a United Presbyterian minister, damned the conduct of the meeting as "immoral, irregular and illegal." As the din continued, Binger announced that he was voting 88% of Honeywell...
Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...