Word: paints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sawyer Mimics Paint Union Gate...
Dining Service Supervisor John Shaffer said he found the paint still wet on the gate when he arrived at 4:45 a.m. last Thursday. In addition, he said paint had been splattered on the stone passageway surrounding that gate, on the stone floor and on chairs inside the dining hall...
Beginning today, workers will remove the splattered paint from the stone, sand down the gate and repaint it black, its original color...
...quality? "It's a poor painting job," D'Andria added, pointing to the mess around the area and the uneven application of paint...
Light counts for a great deal in Kossoff's work. The paint is never opaque; it contains streaks and underglows, akin to the suppressed radiance in Rembrandt's midtones. And there is atmosphere too. One particularly senses it in Kossoff's view of Christ Church in Spitalfields. This tall, slender building, designed by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, acquires a comatose power; the columns of its portico look as thick and squat as those of Karnak, repeating the compression of Kossoff's nudes and heads. But it is the light that one most remembers, a pale, almost chalky emanation...