Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painter, Mi Fei kept his best work for his friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone...
...Patriarchs of Religions Boating Together was done in Tessai's last year. The six figures, representing key personages in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religious history, are symbolic of Tessai's belief in the underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom...
...feet of film, trenchantly photographed by Richard Bagley (The Quiet One). All this has been sensitively cut by Carl Lerner into a 65-minute movie that promises the safe delights of slumming but carries the, spectator into scenes that will sear his eyeballs like a splash of rotgut...
...know whether the efforts of the so-called Harvard "Veritas" Committee, which is trying to interfere in the selection of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer to give the 1957 William James lectures, have made much of a splash in the CRIMSON's pages as yet. It seems to me a significant matter which should receive editorial attention...
...Father Beaumont's recipe: Pour two bottles of Spanish red wine into jug, add two oranges two lemons and cucumber sliced, splash in one bottle of soda, lace with one-eighth bottle of brandy, drop in teaspoonful of Cointreau and two dashes bitters (or "anything like that") mix well and serve ice cold...