Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wires led to fire extinguishers--stolen from MIT, incidentally--filled with yellow paint. They were triggered by mousetraps that the wires connected to some benches and an endzone. Had it not been for some alert groundskeepers and the Cambridge bomb squad, the paint, when released, would have resulted in a huge, jaundiced "Y" appearing on the turf...
...Paint is not an unfamiliar accompaniment for Pre-Game festivities. The long-suffering John Harvard has doubtless turned blue at least once this week, and crimson spray paint has also been known to get a workout at this time of year...
...example, a band of rampant Yale students got nabbed after painting a six-foot blue "BEAT HARVARD" along the front of Widener Library. The cost of water-blasting the paint off was more than $1000. When asked to comment on the incident a year later. Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis said. "That was a very sick thing...
Krasner always wanted to paint big pictures, ones that stretched arm and eye, surfaces that rose to the challenge of scale that was embedded in abstract expressionism. But she was able to find a way of rapid gestural drawing that did not depend on the skeining and overlay of thrown paint from edge to edge that Pollock had perfected. It was the brush that counted for her, and when she did fling or dribble liquid pigment on the surface, it only looked like a mannerism. But her sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface...
Living in the hatchery of cubism, the expatriates' studio in Paris' Rue Ravignan, known as the Bateau Lavoir, Gris was not in at the beginning. He started as a cartoonist and illustrator, and did not even start to paint until 1910. His first cubist pictures belong to 1912, five years (a long time in the avantgarde) after Picasso painted his seminal and outrageous Demoiselles d'Avignon, the five women bathers with bodies of planes and angles. Gris' importance to modern art rests on about ten years of productivity. His work weakened into phlegmatic...