Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking Back, Brauer explains, deals "again with the problem of digesting the past. The red shape is a gas chamber, but in order to live with it, I paint it beautiful. The green man looks back at it indirectly, through a mirror. The little monsters are like the people who seemed to me monsters when I walked the streets of Vienna as a boy during the war." On the other hand, the green man has holes in his shoes simply because "it makes the feet more interesting." The folds of his trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have...
...nation was young, proud and prickly. Proud of its achievements and of its mighty land, but looking for someone, somehow, to confirm it in its pride. It fell to Cole to see and paint the U.S. with a vision of its grandeur that expressed the young nation's inner vision -of a landscape that need yield pride of place to no other country...
Works Undefiled. Cole was the shy and sensitive son of an English immigrant who had set up shop as a wallpaper maker in the bustling new town of Steubenville, Ohio, where he arrived in 1818. Thomas helped his father with designs, was shown how to paint likenesses by one of the itinerant portrait painters who trudged from town to isolated town in early America. He set out to be a traveling portrait painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude...
Earnings Up. The campaign was the idea of TWA's adwoman, Mary Wells Lawrence, who also started the battle of the frills in 1965 when she persuaded Braniff to paint its planes pastel and outfit the stewardesses in original Pucci culottes. After she married Braniff President Harding Lawrence, it became obvious that the family relationship was too cozy for business. The conflict was resolved last summer when she won the TWA account and Braniff dropped her. Last week she announced that earnings of her agency, Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., rose 63% to $801,000 during the first half...
fall in sawdust from the aluminum-paint wall...