Word: painting
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...fashioned oil on canvas? Judging by the splash that Julian Schnabel, the high diver of the contemporary American art scene, has been making in Frankfurt, it's still alive and kicking in the age of multimedia installations. At least that's true of Schnabel's brand of oil painting, in which buckets of pigment are applied to vast tarpaulins, sails and boxing-ring mats. His retrospective, "Julian Schnabel Paintings 1978-2003," at the Schirn Museum until April 25, has attracted more ink than anything since Christo wrapped up the Reichstag. Paint could hardly find a more forceful salesman. Schnabel...
...second of three floors in Sigma Chi’s new home at 1124 Mass. Ave. is all pink paint and flower wallpaper—not what one would expect to find in a fraternity house...
Sigma Chi now enjoys old moldings, fireplaces, wood bannisters, ceiling medallions and old light fixtures. While they have yet to paint over the pink rooms and rip down the flowered wall paper, the house is beginning to assume a fraternity ambience...
...Late in his life, El Greco painted St. John, whose elaborate vision became the biblical book Revelation, as part of a never-completed altarpiece. The scene may show the moment when the saint meets the souls of those who died for their faith. John is an impossibly stretched figure, throwing up his hands against one of El Greco's typically stormy skies, his face seen in violent perspective. The martyrs seem pallid and rubbery, but the scene has a strange intensity; even the drapery quivers with emotion and vibrates with light. There may be more mundane reasons...
...assumption of liberal meekness may also prove faulty. There is no doubt that the Republican-political-industrial complex will try to paint the Democrats as loose, latte-chugging elitists. A two-track--high-road, low-road--attack on John Kerry began on cue last week. Republican chairman Ed Gillespie said Kerry had been weak on defense, voting against crucial weapons systems; meanwhile, the Drudge Report and other tabloid patriots spread the rumor that Kerry had improved his looks with Botox injections. But Gillespie had to concede that Kerry had an "honorable" war record, and the Drudge insinuation of narcissism...