Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed more convincing...
...Water Paintings are the freest images Raffael has so far made, and by far the most poetic. The blots, scribbles and stains of the paint-closely worked and yet oddly abstract, as if performed in a trance-are analogues to the liquidity of water itself. Paint "equals" water in much the same way as, in some Renaissance portraiture, the graininess of pigment "equals" the cellular structure of flesh...
...obvious function: they froze time. Pictures of this size (some 6 ft. by 9 ft.) cannot readily be made by setting up an easel beside some river in northern California; only Monet, with his unequaled powers of observing and retaining a fleeting effect of light and movement, could paint his water-lily murals in open air at Giverny with gardeners struggling to haul the vast 19-ft. canvases in and out of his studio. But Raffael's images are not ruled by their starting point in the photo. They are recreation, not enlargement; between photo and painting fall...
...present, a student who wishes to repaint his room must submit an application which is sent to Buildings and Grounds. A maintenance man must then inspect the room and make any necessary repairs. The student then receives the paint free and provides his own labor...
Under the new system a student would select from stock a kit which would include paint, a brush, spackle, and sandpaper. All of these tools would be disposable and would eliminate the problem of retrieving the expensive tools now issued...