Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intricate Jumble. Kline's early Greenwich Village scenes of the late 1930s and early 1940s were sturdily realistic. At the time, he was decorating the walls of the Bleecker Street Tavern with $5 murals, to make ends meet. His break into abstraction was sudden and dramatic. For years, he had been making increasingly simplified sketches; as an art student in London, he had also collected Japanese prints. One day in 1949, he was visiting a friend who had a Balopticon projector; they enlarged several Kline sketches on the wall. The blown-up image wrenched the drawings...
...Black and white, the nouns and verbs of his paintings, could talk to each other in a stately pidgin English, but colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble. Only in his last years did Kline make color do his bidding. Orange and Black Wall, one of his later paintings, lunges upward and off the canvas like a giant rocket, rising up on the strength of its flaming boosters. Red Painting mounts an enigmatic black rectangle in a morning-red sky that endows it with a warning eloquence and precision...
...last the music of the Rolling Stones has been enshrined where some of their less charitable listeners have always felt it belonged: on a lavatory wall. The cover of the Stones' latest-and as yet unreleased-album is a photo of a graffiti-covered wall above an unpleasant-looking toilet. The name "The Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls...
While the impasse over the release of Beggars' Banquet drags on, the Stones are already conjuring more headaches for Decca. They hint that the cover of their next album may make the bathroom wall of Beggars' Banquet look cute by comparison. Its subject: the Pope...
Welcome as such statements were, Wall Street showed much more excitement over what brokers were calling "the Nixon market." Reflecting belief that a Republican Administration would be good for corporate profits, stock prices rose last week to their highest level in two years amid heavy trading volume. Continuing a two-month rally, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed...