Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd said the same with its placards, on which the paint was hardly dry. "Down with Truman," they said. "Break with Truman . . . United Labor must defeat Truman. . . . Labor must organize a third party now." And on a sign in the background that ugly word "Fascism" appeared. "The hell it can't happen here," trumpeted the sign. "Fascism is here today...
Reality on Wires. Audubon noticed far more than the game birds. He got in the habit of shooting birds of every species and toting them home to paint before their colors faded. When he should have been behind the counter in his store, Audubon was wiring crumpled, feathered things in lifelike positions to copy them. The family finances deteriorated, until Lucy took up schoolteaching to support their two children...
...always, topicality has been the keynote; a glance backard at 22 issues of Volume CXVI conjures up a picture of the University in the post-war maelstrom just as certainly as the 1873 pages paint us portraits of young men with Paris Garters and Fine Clothes...
...Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity of music, and in each the melody of line and color meant more than the bones, blossoms, skyscrapers, barns, crosses and canyon walls she used for lyrics...
...Keeffe's art, says Museum director of painting and sculpture James Johnson Sweeney, in a forthcoming Museum book on O'Keeffe, is "stark but always constrained. . . . And the way she came to this was by the severest self-stripping." O'Keeffe, a thin, austere-looking woman, has been stripping herself for a long time. Born 58 years ago in the small town of Sun Prairie, Wis., she decided to paint as she pleased, because "it seemed to be the only thing that I could do that did not concern anyone but myself...