Word: soots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coffee to Brew a Storm. It is probably only legend that he used chocolate, milk, and soot in his work; but he did use coffee to portray a brewing storm, deliberately broke pen points to achieve a wider line, pecked his paintings with a knife or dirtied them with fingers to give the impression of mist. He could paint or draw a female nude with bold and simple strokes; he could also produce magnificent colored swirls or fascinating gloops that would seem at home in many modern galleries. In his drawing of a hanged man, inspired partly by the execution...
...study of the Loire Valley, Fantus will only recommend the types of industries that should be located at various spots, and the French will find the companies. But for worried tourists who picture factory smokestacks raining soot on scenic châteaus, Yaseen has a word of comfort. "It might make economic sense to put a steel factory next to a château," he says, "but it would not make sociological sense. We will have to balance truth with wisdom...
...Bontecou, a blonde loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness, scorched with a blowtorch for blackness. From there, the elaborate wall structures grew. "I wanted to get sculpture off the floor-sculptures standing on the floor, they don't have anything to do with anything; they're so heavy and, well, I just wanted to get them...
Tony Richardson, 34, is a Yorkshireman who hates things gently. As chief director among the so-called Angry Young Men, he helped Writer John Osborne toss a large red brick through the French doors of conventional English stagecraft, bringing the smell of soot and soft coal into the theater...
...Modern office buildings are efficient, self-sufficient communities, containing everything from clinics and barber shops to bars and restaurants. They are air conditioned, which makes them not only cooler in summer but infinitely cleaner all year round (on every square mile of New York City, 89.6 tons of soot fall each month). They are lighter; the hanging curtain wall has made possible many times as much window space. But they have one serious drawback: they are bigger, which means more people, which means more congestion...