Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paint Lick...
...Hampshire to Texas, Reagan charged that the Soviet Union had opened up a dangerous numerical lead in strategic weaponry, a lead that could only be erased by substantial increases in American defense spending. After gaining his party's nomination, Ford carried the attack to the Democrats, attempting to paint Carter as dangerously "soft" on defense. Following the Ford defeat, the crusade for higher defense spending intensified in an effort to force favorable decisions from the new President on a multitude of major weapons projects--including the B-1 bomber, the strategic cruise missile and the M-X, a new, land...
...Dine has often rendered ordinary objects-a coat, a zipper, neckties, hats-with a wry and knowing line. He has whimsically strung C-clamps and wrenches, hammers and saws, along the edges of his paint-splashed canvases. His works are partly autobiographical, since he was entranced as a child by the tools in his father's hardware store in Cincinnati. But unlike most of the artists clustered under the umbrella of Pop art, Dine claimed issue from the expressionist tradition. "My work is the opposite to cool," he once remarked...
...drawing, which gives exactly the right definition to the edge of a sleeve, the correct visual weight to the shadow in a fold. It is beaux-arts drawing applied with a kind of gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common to a lot of Pop art - clean, flat, unresonant. But, says he, "the robes glow now," thanks to the traditional oil paint...
...Hunt, however, had already written 42 short stories and spy novels. He used his cell in Florida's Eglin Air Force Base prison as an artist's studio, turning out 35 watercolors and acrylics that "express my hopes and despairs." Soon Hunt, 58, will be able to paint at home. After serving 2½ years of his maximum eight-year term and paying a $10,000 fine, he will be paroled on Feb. 25. Meanwhile, his lawyer is busy trying to line up a one-man show for him near his home in Miami or in New York...