Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes to a head when, after the tension and estrangement has reached its peak, after Claire has pursued a whole set of fantasies, the poles reverse and the couple come together in a sudden, two-day orgy. They tear the paper off the walls of their flat, scrawl and paint surrealistic shapes underneath, and finally slump back into exhaustion and defeat. Then they separate for good...
...have several entryways; need they all be physically attached? From Robinson Hall to Holworthy, from Robinson to Emerson, there must be enough room to fit 200 students and save Hunt Hall, perhaps incorporating it as a Freshman center, a function the Union has failed to serve despite its new paint job. Hunt could house practice rooms, a center for women in the Yard, a lounge, a grill...
...They have altogether lost their shock. Most of them are now drained of their power even to surprise. Some look ornamental to the point of sleekness. To an extent that nobody would have predicted 15 years ago, they have entered the canon of belle peinture: what tract of paint surface could be more grazeable than the richly troweled field on which Dubuffet's Cow in a Black Meadow stands mooing soulfully, the hilarious bovine essence of solitude...
...Calvary inflicted on him by this very town. Since the citizenry so painfully rejected his previous efforts at salvation, it develops that this second attempt is actually a form of punishment for their earlier transgressions. Heavy stuff, and never more ludicrously so than when he forces them to literally paint their town red while he renames it on the welcoming signboard−HELL, of course...
...main contribution to modernity was Cubism is not, however, just. Cubism was an inexpressive system, and therein, admittedly, lay much of its beauty. But Picasso was also a master of expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation...