Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a knowing man could paint like that...
...Navy took him up in a plane to do 17 pictures of the Navy's blimps in action. For weeks, he painted nothing but blimps: in hangars, on submarine patrol, against the sunset. Standard Oil (N.J.) flew him to Venezuela to paint oil wells. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put him on a private car ("You should have seen those huge bedrooms, with big brass beds in them") to picture the West Virginia countryside...
Buttressing Buddy (an unprepossessing teddy bear) will be 65 Universal-International color movie shorts, 100,000 record albums, a newspaper cartoon strip drawn by the artists of Superman, Buddy Bear dolls, pull-toys, crayons, paint sets, wallpaper, pajamas, toothbrush holders, cereal bowls, lamps, storybooks-"and countless other items of merchandise . . . under the Buddy Bear name." Some parents suspected that the time might come when the afternoon horror programs would be remembered with wistful regret...
Despite the critics' prompting, some Berliners-those who were too young to have seen the art that Hitler banned-frankly disliked Koerner. "Why," asked the conservative youths, "doesn't he paint things as they...
Never a prodigy, Andrew had gradually learned to hit off the look of what he saw without apparent effort. Now his technique has become as unobtrusively slick as that of Surrealist René Magritte (see above). And for an age when storytelling in paint is frowned on even by academicians, Andrew's pictures are suitably storyless. His sharply sunlit Afternoon (on exhibition with 17 other of his paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last week) looks as pleasant, and as posed, as a vacation snapshot...