Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks come in I can set up till midnight and listen. I love to hear the gossip...
Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
That evening the delegates assembled for their first regular meeting in the Concertgebouw, where they soon found that the Dutch signs Let op - Nat meant "wet paint." The actual sessions had no linguistic shocks; the delegates sat comfortably in red plush chairs and tinkered with the knobs of a simultaneous translation system which brought them the proceedings in English, French or German...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...