Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excellent skiing on Mansfield above 32 inches of snow is luring big crowds to Stowe. Most popular of the local hotels is George Morrel's Lodge, which has had a good chance to show off the new coat of paint which it acquired in the ambitious refurbishing and expending that it underwent this summer. The Nose Dive and X-53 trails are reported in top-notch condition in spite of the large crowds skiing Mansfield these days...
...Jamini Roy, a Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
...first art school three years ago, just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...
...things to paint, Belgian Paul Delvaux liked nothing better than painting naked, big-breasted women on windy beaches, crowded streets and moonlit terraces, among Greek ruins and in Empire ballrooms. Sometimes he showed them stooping to pluck a rose from the floor or from under a passing trolley...
Delvaux's mysteriously out-of-place nudes earned him a growing reputation as one of Europe's finest fantasists, sold almost as fast as he could paint them. Last week the first full-dress U.S. exhibition of his buff-bare ladies was on display at a Manhattan gallery, sponsored by well-clothed U.N. General Assembly President (and Belgian Foreign Minister) Paul-Henri Spaak. By careful culling, the show bared no pubic hairs, was guaranteed not to rouse the same censorship problems that harried Delvaux's recently imported painting, Temptation of St. Anthony (TIME, Sept...