Word: waxing
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...wax isn’t going to hurt...
...objects - steamboats, an ace of spades - can be identified amid a welter of enigmatic markings. Meanwhile Klee also expanded his experiments with an astonishing variety of materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight...
MEDARDO ROSSO: SECOND IMPRESSIONS. This exhibit of Medardo Rosso’s sculptures is the first at a U.S. museum in 40 years. Medardo Rosso, an “impressionist sculptor,” saved and exhibited his wax casts rather than transforming them into bronzes. Focusing on five Rosso works, the exhibit attempts to determine what he was after when he sculpted 50 different variations of heads and busts. These range from the early “Aetas aurea” (The Golden Age, 1886-87), to the full-figure “Bookmaker?...
...then, with victory on the horizon, I blow it, throwing away the last 100 baht on a bunch of wax bananas. Well, every campaign has its casualties, and in Chatuchak it's likely to be your sanity as well as your hundred bucks...
...muse, the poster girl of poster girls, FARRAH FAWCETT, and her collaborator, artist Keith Edmier. The centerpiece of the show is a life-size sculpture of Fawcett's naked form carved in marble by Edmier, and Edmier's cast in bronze by Fawcett. Also on display is a wax seashell containing Fawcett's footprints in sand from her hometown. Sounds like a show you'd skip if there weren't a Charlie's Angel involved? Maybe that's the point...