Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris had been kind to Gauguin the dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...
...prime joys of the picture is the springwater freshness and immediacy of the lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops. Often as not, the brilliant Technicolor is deliberately anti-natural istic. Voice, word, gesture, human beings, their bearing and costumes retain their dramatic salience and sovereignty. The result is a new cinema style...
...granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for educating young females. The UNO council chamber had been built in only 15 days and still looked, somehow, as though an irascible electrician might crawl out from beneath a desk. There were blackboards in the halls, a strong smell of paint in the air, and neat signs which still read "Corrective Room" and "Meditation Chapel." And, like most other newcomers to New York City, UNO had been engulfed as well as accepted...
...statue to Russia's First Proletarian in front of the Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...
This week Hollywood's Loew-Lewin Productions announced that Ernst was the $3,000 prizewinner in a "Temptation of St. Anthony" contest. The producers had persuaded twelve apostles of Modern Art to paint what Anthony saw. (Each artist got $500 for trying.) Ernst's winning picture will be used in a movie, Bel Ami or The History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted...