Their relationship was tempestuous, but resulted in some of Bacon's most searing portraits, painted during Dyer's life and after his death in 1971 from a drink and drugs overdose.
The high temperatures weakened the supports in a 10-foot stretch at the top of the rear fuselage and seared the paint on the top of the skin, causing the most extensive damage yet to one of the new Dreamliners.
"It was unbearable, searing pain.
"Searing pain," he said later.
In other words, they routinely tromped outside, often enduring frigid winds or searing heat, to paint near their subjects.
Max van der Stoel, a career Dutch diplomat who used his appointment as the United Nations' official watchdog on Iraqi human rights abuses in the 1990s to paint searing portraits of Saddam Hussein's murderous government, died on April 23 at his home in The Hague.
Lest attendees miss the eye-searing paint job, adjacent to the Camaro was a gentleman dressed as Bumblebee, the Transformers character who assumed the shape of the Camaro in his automotive form.
With rare exceptions, the documents paint a searing picture of the collapse of basic humanity, a Lord of the Flies scenario of which any liberal democracy should be utterly ashamed.
A boxy steel staircase painted in searing cobalt blue, something between a go-go dancer's cage and a sculpture at the Tate, is perfect for an ultra-stylish north London power couple.
September 11 , 2001 marks the day when terrorism began to meaningfully matter to many of Mahajan's American audience, or so the "post-9/11 world" soundbite suggests, but his novel paints a searing image of the devastation left by the more typical forms of terroristic violence that predated the post-9/11 world, and that continue to this day.
So in the summer of 2013, nearly a decade after he'd made his first Sears painting in a college classroom, Bird dreamed up an American road trip unlike any other: He would travel from coast to coast photographing Sears department stores.
