Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting symbolizes "the fall of humanity caused by the leftward trend"; the two left hands indicate humanity's trend to the left. "I almost always paint two left hands on my figures," says Artist Kingman...
...Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...
...convinced members of the Miller coterie, most of the 600 visitors to the Miller art show felt that Henry's latest nightmares were badly in need of airconditioning. Only seven pictures were sold. Among those who did not consider the exhibition very good: Henry Miller. "When I paint I have a lot of fun," he explained, "but I feel I'm on a tight rope. I'm jittery. Sometimes when I start out vaguely to do a landscape I end up with a fish. I worried about this until other painters said they do the same thing...
...matter how trivial), sold in good time and told in good taste. Lest his Bulletin track mud into the neat row houses where it was a daily guest, he forbade it to muckrake. When the syndicated comic-strippers took to stripping their girls, he had his art room paint their clothes right back...
...zanne would doubtless be shocked by the modern artists who paint from imagination-and most of whom (Picasso, Braque and Duchamp) credit him with showing the way. For him, nature was everything, in spite of the fact that what he kept seeing in nature was, he insisted, "the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all put into perspective...