He had initiated his familiar closely brushed, micromanaged painting style.
BRUSHED FRONT OVER Brush a section on the top of your head.
The son of Latino immigrants to New York, he began his career studying architecture at the Pratt Institute; his first artworks were thickly brushed, gesture-filled abstract paintings in the manner of de Kooning.
Oddly enough, as I was getting ready to write this, I stepped into a restaurant in New York – and in brushed a woman in big sunglasses and crazy boots, who warmly greeted the staff in a manner so familiar to me I smiled instinctively.
All the while, rather in the manner of a young Henry James heroine, the innocent protagonist can, at any moment, stumble into self-destruction or corruption, brushed as she is intermittently by Hollywood's nefarious doings.
"But some decorators like a brushed finish".
"Teeth and hair brushed?" Samir nods.
Or even a simple brushed silver.
Brushed metal becomes passé, in an eyeblink.
The walls were painted a brushed ochre.
