Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fours won against several strong crews, including national champion -- Union Boat Club. The Harvard boat included three members of the United States team who participated in the World Rowing Championships in Yugoslavia last month, Andy Larkin, Paul Silk, and Bill Welbach. The fourth man Ned Lawson was a member of the Harvard junior varsity last spring...
...keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to random viewer. Some of his early pieces--like the dollar bills--are made with a rubber stamp, but more re- cently he has begun to reproduce his paintings with silk screen. For Warhol, the silk screen process provides an ideal method of mass production because the artist remains almost entirely uninvolved. He selects a photograph, and his associates fabricate silk screens from the photo and press paint through the screens to produce a batch of Warhol "originals" in a multitude of sizes...
...years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...
Other artists took it from there. New York's Tom Wesselmann silk-screened the image of a nude onto plastic, then shaped it to capture its contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
...Brun's series on The Elements, which ransacked classical mythology to celebrate the events in Louis XIV's reign. One of the most famous, L'Air, drew from the full range of the factory's 79 colors to depict, in wool, gold and silk threads, Juno, the goddess of marriage, rebuffing Boreas, the god of the north wind in Greek mythology. Courtiers understood that the real subject was Louis' marriage to Marie-Therese of Spain, which had brought to an end France's 25-year war with that country...