It spans a sparkling flow of water, and stretches of sensuously painted greenery line both banks.
With its visionary architecture, singing angels and finely painted greenery, "The Fountain of Life," Oberlin's magically vivid, jewel-colored picture, by an unknown 16th-century Spaniard, holds its own in the small Northern Renaissance gallery.
Two women and a man wind seamlessly through a stage space surrounded by large painted leaves and greenery in "Man Suit e)." The trio is set to music from spaghetti westerns and James Bond movies and a taped text, drawn from Mark Twain's musings on Adam and Eve, that ends with the murmured warning to "keep away from that tree".
The greenery was painted with a copper resinate that over time has darkened to brown.
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Wood chips; damp tennis ball; general dog scent; cabbage; cocoa; simple floral perfume; paint; fountain; greenery; air conditioning; chlorine; lemon balm; Port-o-Potty; melon mixed with air conditioner; fruit salad; socks; urine.
Soft mounds of Mexican heather and butterfly bush soften the edges of the formal French-influenced layout, and funky metal and wire chairs painted white or delicate hydrangea blue peek through the tropical greenery.
Taken together, they add up to a vulnerability for Mr Bush and an opportunity for Mr Kerry.This is because of a lesson from the 1990s: although greenery rarely seems to matter at the voting booth, things are different when a candidate can be painted as rabidly ungreen.
More greenery in a city, spread through streets and over roofs, means more cooling as water evaporates from leaves; the bits which are not green can be painted white, to reflect sunlight.And cities have intrinsic advantages.
The distinctly urban scents, as delineated by the late urban smellscape specialist Victoria Henshaw, included food (waffles, asparagus, bakery, cheese, fat and grease, bacon, Dutch sausages, coffee and beer), traffic and exhaust fumes, synthetic odours (rubber, plastic, spray paint, cleaning products, bleach, chemicals), construction (wood, asphalt, paint) and plants (greenery, garden, grass).
Where Constable might paint a distant farmboy in a red shirt, to counterpoint all the bosky greenery, Shaw gives us a red-painted dogshit bin.
Even when such mythological components as cherry trees becoming trolls, mountains becoming ice queens, and melting snow transforming into mighty horses aren't so explicit, Astrup would paint scenes where the mountains were ablaze with occult fire rituals or the abundant, rain-soaked greenery was bathed in supernatural light.
