Word: painting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most common reactions from people experiencing their first taste of modern art is, "Gee, I could have done that." They see a few bright-colored geometric shapes scattered seemingly randomly on a canvas, or splotches of paint dribbled across it, and they assume that all they need is some paint and the nerve to tack high price tags on to their accidents in order to be an artist...
...close to being a national hero as any French artist has ever been in his own lifetime-eventually died, the garden had become one of the most complete environmental expressions of a man's taste ever to be constructed. Monet created his own motif in order to paint it in tranquillity, and the paintings were art about art-self-reflexive, but imbued with an intense veneration for nature...
...doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there...
...from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said...
...carpenter said during the first day of the strike, "You have to stick with what you know. They want me to paint and I'm just not a painter. I would not be doing the job right and might mess it up." The carpenters feel strongly that they should work only at the jobs for which they were trained...