Word: shishkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise production. Said Avrutin: "Seven hours for a canvas of 57 by 84 centimeters [22 in. by 43 in.]? There is no need to waste so much time." Avrutin turned for an example to the task of copying Morning in the Pine Forest, a 19th century favorite by Ivan Shishkin. "The depth of the forest takes two hours; one more hour for the broken trees; for the pink sky, one additional hour. The four bears require not more than 15 minutes each. For general touching up, one hour more. The total," he finished, "makes six hours. This will...
...according to Soviet Culture, a young artist stood up. How, he wanted to know, can you paint a little bear in 15 minutes and still make him lovable? The director replied sharply: "Quantity transforms itself into quality...Take Zvezdin. For more than eight years the man has painted only Shishkin's Morning in the Pine Forest. Wake him up at any time in the night, and he will do the job better than Shishkin himself...
Johnson had talked his ideas over with such men as the Rev. John F. Cronin, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. Economist Boris Shishkin, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, Libbey-Owens-Ford's President John D. Biggers, RCA's President Frank Folsom, Macy's President Jack I. Straus, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Herman Steinkraus. Their final report called for nothing less than revolution in the basic approach to labor-management relations...