Word: painting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his conversion to Catholicism at the age of 25, Rolfe nourished a grand obsession: to become a Roman Catholic priest. But he was expelled from two seminaries, one in Britain, one in Rome, where he continued to paint and photograph, cavalierly charging materials to the bishops who sponsored him. His superiors may have detected an even more distressing strain. Rolfe was in the habit of employing pen, camera and oils to attract young men. The results could be artful sublimations-poems or paintings exalting saintly martyrs. But when he was candid, as in his "Ballade of Boys Bathing" ("Wondrous...
...cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint job (blue...
Hidden by Veils. Diebenkorn.'s art is about sensuous pleasure, qualified and tightened by an acute sense of instability: through the paradise of paint, a San Andreas fault runs. The syntax of Diebenkorn's marks is delectable in itself...
There are perhaps a dozen living paint ers who vindicate painting's claim to be still a major art. Richard Diebenkorn is one of them...
Hoping to avoid the poster and graffiti pollution that plagued neighboring Portugal after the 1974 revolution, government officials erected more than 900 billboards throughout the capital with such mottos as "Play clean, don't paint the city." The government itself put up thousands of posters exhorting voters to "Think, analyze and choose" and "Democracy is among other things the acceptance of political pluralism...