Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THERE WAS NO PAINT OR OTHER ARTIFICIAL COLORING ON THE GRASS OF THE ROSE BOWL NEW YEAR'S DAY OR ANY OTHER DAY [TIME, JAN. 12]. YOUR ARTICLE UNFAIR, UNTRUE AND NOT SPORTING. DON'T SHOOT THOSE DUCKS UNTIL THEY STOP SWIMMING...
...spent a lifetime to achieve them. Born in 1901, Giacometti has passed from impressionism to cubism to surrealism and was dissatisfied with them all. The son of Switzerland's first great impressionist, he began drawing at five. He laughed at his father's landscapes ("Why do you paint this tree? You don't have to. Don't you see that it is already there?"). His father let the boy paint pretty much as he pleased, gently correcting him whenever he could...
...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
...wish I could paint more," Hopper says. "I get sick of reading and going to the movies. I'd much rather be painting all the time, but I don't have the impulse. Of course I do dozens of sketches for oils-just a few lines on yellow typewriter paper-and then I almost always burn them. If I do one that interests me, I go on and make a painting, but that happens only two or three times a year...
...begun by making a trip to Italy to learn how Madonnas were done. The experience left his Protestant nature cold; he preferred the brawling uncertainties of the North, and the moralizing surrealism of his Flemish forerunner, Hieronymus Bosch (TIME, Sept. 15). Before he died in 1569, Bruegel was to paint a series of complicated masterpieces in oil, but he got his start working from and for the market place, selling his engravings cheap. His horny-handed customers were bound to appreciate pictured proverbs like The Hay Runs After the Horse (symbolizing girls who chase boys...