Word: painting
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...Chast: ''Mad About'' CD Covers Making a pointedly unself-serious attempt to attract new buyers, the classical-record label Deutsche Grammophon commissioned fey, funny cartoonist Chast to paint the covers for their Mad About series of reissues. The result: a charming new brand -- and a possible explanation of why CDs are exactly the size of cartoons...
...primary piece for the gallery, Sigmar Polke’s “Untitled,” is an abstract painting with a variety of coats, some opaque, some translucent. Buried in these layers of the canvas are a collage of intentional marks, chaotic paint splatter, and textures both smooth and wrinkled. It confuses at first, but each new look brings out a new detail, or stratum...
...canvas—into a workout for your retinas. One can’t help but struggle to shift the focus from the painting’s surface to what is below, over and over again. At over two-and-a-half meters high each, both paintings are bold, bursting with color and texture. The physical material of the paint seems to extend off of the canvas towards the viewer, while the colors seep into the depths under the surface...
...produce many of the biggest draws of the event in house. Most members of the Committee contributed design, text, or pictures to an extensive and beautiful website. A team built a nine-foot Trojan horse for only a few hundred dollars’ worth of lumber and paint. The former owner of a cake-baking company (and a Lowell resident) approached HoCo about building a massive cake in the shape of the House. Hours of work from individual Lowellians saved thousands of dollars. The treasurer haggled with vendors and worked with other HoCos to get group discounts that slashed thousands...
...drag show dressing room. Or RuPaul’s closet. But a soap factory? Probably not. However, the warehouse-like store best known for its eccentric style and $1.50 per pound clothing is actually housed in a former soap factory. The walls have long since been covered in fuchsia paint and Led Zeppelin posters, but according to the store’s co-owner, Brooke Fletcher, the building is “the last of its kind,” one of the few remnants of Cambridge’s industrial past. The city of Cambridge takes that fact seriously...