Word: painting
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...Devon Guillery, a junior at West Roxbury High School, divided his mural with a street: on the right side are pristine white houses with doghouses and porches, and on the left, a boarded up housing project. In the foreground, two young men walk by gazing pensively out of the painting. “I decided to paint what I’ve seen,” he said. “I know both these worlds...
...group’s second mural, the Rodney King story told in hieroglyphics, provoked citywide controversy when Boston police objected to the depiction of the beating. As a compromise, the mural crew agreed to paint a second mural depicting better relations between officers and the community...
...berries in the trees. But all was not well at this collision of concrete and Mother Nature. “They eat the berries and decide to poop on the cars!” laughs April Tavares, a Harvard Parking Office employee. But for the car owners whose paint jobs were bearing the brunt of these aerial bombardments, this was no laughing matter. At $450 for a spot for one year, car owners paid for convenience, not corrosion from the surprisingly acidic starling droppings. The parking lot’s users decided to take action and filed a complaint with...
Upgrades in the stacks include the cleaning of Widener’s 3.5 million books, a new paint job for the stack shelves involving 840 gallons of paint, motion sensitive lighting, new photocopiers and study carrels, secure storage lockers, well-lit stairs, new elevators and an increased number of computer terminals...
Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), throughout his prolific career as a prominent member of the New York School painters, left an indelible mark on painting. His perpetual investigation of the relation between figuration and abstraction, as manifest in the female form, led him to paint innovative and groundbreaking images with lasting potency, first among these being “Woman...