Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting Evangelistas has steadily grown. Last week...
...When I paint," Pablo Picasso once said, "my object is to show what I have found, and not what I am looking for. In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons." A new edition of Verve, in U.S. bookstores last week, showed proofs of Picasso's recent finds and loves...
Rivera's fiery colleague, Muralist David Siqueiros, offered a more subtle solution. Hire a Catholic painter, he suggested, to paint a mural alongside Rivera's, with the words "God is omniscient." Nobody in Siqueiros' atheistic, revolutionary crowd would touch it, he promised. The offer went untaken...
Bonnard once pointed out (in a conversation quoted in Verve) that his personal brand of impressionism involved painting first impressions. He described an experiment in painting from nature instead of from memory which had ended in failure. "I tried to paint directly, scrupulously," he recalled, "and I let myself be absorbed by the details ... I realized that I was muddling, that I was getting nowhere. I had lost, I could no longer find my way back to my initial idea, the vision that had charmed me . . . the first seductiveness...
...outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...