Word: varnishers
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...smaller rooms in the back of Carbury-Breau's violin shop display bows and more violins. The farthest room smells of varnish, and little jars are piled on the workbench...
Crowley glued the pilfered illustrations tobaroque jewelry-box like constructions, whichexhibited meticulous handiwork and were coatedwith a clear varnish, police said. Police found 12such boxes in Crowley's home...
...much admired in their time but can hardly even be assessed now. For in pursuit of jewel-like effects and deep layering of color, Ryder painted "lean over fat," so that slower-drying strata of paint underneath pulled the quicker-drying surface apart. He would slosh abominable messes of varnish on the surface, and pile up the pigment by incessant retouching until the images became quaking pitch lakes...
...dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare -- and a losing battle as well. One may be quite sure that whenever it takes place, the next Ryder retrospective will...
...shattered gin bottle and a dented but full can of varnish were lying on the sidewalk shortly after the incident occurred. In addition, the opaque screen on a window directly above the broken bottle was torn...