Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Pollock, administrative assistant at OCS-OCL, said yesterday he believes if the Scholarship Bank succeeds, more students will apply for scholarships, increasing competition for them. "It will become like the medical school process--fewer students will get accepted," he added...
...Pollock said OCS-OCL provides a library containing information on grants, foundation, endowments and scholarships...
Everything seems conducted at the same oratorical volume, whereas in the greatest romantic painters (Turner, for instance, or, in our own century, Pollock), there is a wide range of feeling, apportioned and understood, between the small, exactly registered perception and the grand, generalized effect. Still's colors tend to repetition, the drawing is clumsy, and the paint surface is often crude; he has a way of crushing his pigments into clots and straggles of shiny impasto that works badly against the mat ground. Thus his visual language can look dour and forced...
...ancestors, and I know myself best by my gestures, meanings...not through a study of my family tree." To a great extent he succeeded. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like his work, and even the influence of surrealism, a vital catalyst for Pollock and Rothko, is less apparent in Still than anywhere else in abstract expressionism. Instead of going by fits and starts, testing and absorbing other art, Still's career gives the impression of monolithic solidity: he found his style early and stuck to it for more than 30 years. No other artist living today...
...more Since the Federal Reserve constricted money, bond trading has been more Jackson Pollock than Rockwell. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Peter Goldsmith: 'This has been the worst period the bond markets have ever experienced...