Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of the all-powerful Democratic machine-that is, for nearly all of the past half-century-Chicago's mayoral elections generated about as much suspense as the drying of paint. No more. When Windy City voters choose a mayor three weeks from now, leaders of the national Democratic Party and black communities all over the country will be watching not just with interest but with more than a tinge of apprehension. The election has turned into a test of how much power blacks can exercise by working within the Democratic Party, their political home since early New Deal...
Custodians of the Marx memorial were relieved that no fanatic felt driven to pry the philosopher's bearded bust off its granite pedestal, smear it with paint, or try to chisel off the nose, as had happened in the past. Throughout the day, Communist representatives from a number of countries trooped by the monument to lay bouquets of red carnations, tulips and daffodils. "Homage from the Chilean Trade Union Congress," read one card. Another floral tribute was presented "on behalf of the Marxist-Leninists in Bangladesh who cannot be here." Many residents of the city in which Marx spent...
Physical and emotional pain became Kahlo's principal subject. She painted herself skewered, split, trussed and as a deer bristling with arrows. She was no sentimentalist. In 1938 Clare Boothe Luce, then managing editor of Vanity Fair, asked Kahlo to paint a memorial portrait of a friend who had jumped from a New York hotel window. The artist complied with a depiction of the woman simultaneously leaping, falling and finally lying dead on the pavement...
...themes of privation and sardonic defiance are conveyed at first glance. The set, designed by Playwright Byrne, is the slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...Guidelli) was a little girl in a flower print dress, and the Germany were slowly retreating through the fields of Tuscany under the onslaught of the Allies. The town of San Martino has been marked for mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers and march...