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CCI 1ST SECTION, ZONE: LIFE, STATE 17:4:56 IMPRESSION SUBJECT CLAUDE FRANCE WORKS MONET PAINT BRUSH COLOR ART STUDIO NOTES PARIS SEINE LIGHT SHOW BOB LILY Can you find the hidden words? Search carefully because some words are backward or diagonal. 1874, an artist named Claude Monet exhibited a painting in a show in Paris along with several other innovative artists. Critics were unimpressed by the show and unfavorably labeled the work as merely after painting (1872). However, this show marked the beginning of an important movement in art that would later be referred to as This edition of Shortcuts is sponsored by Clawed Monet. Monet was one of a group of progressive artists who painted during the late 1800s in France.

Their goal was to capture their first impressions of an outdoor scene. They created quick paintings that focused on the atmosphere created by natural outdoor light. Monet was born in Paris on Nov. 14, 1840. When Monet was young, he used to create caricatures of his teachers.

Monet began to study painting in Paris when he was 19 years old. Monet died in 1926 at the age of 86. For more information on Monet, check out these books: by Jude Welton (DK Children) or Monet (Life and Work by Sean Connolly (Heinemann-Raintree). www.shortcutscomic.com Distributed by UFS, Inc. Jeff Harris 2010 Can you help this brush reach the canvas? This cartoon is as boring as watching paint dry.

Things look different in the moonlight. Unlike other artists of his time, Monet used sketchy brushstrokes and variations in color instead of smooth lines to render forms in his paintings. In 1883, Monet moved to Giverny, France. In this country setting, Monet painted some of his most famous works, including his series of large water lily paintings. Monet would often paint a series of paintings depicting the same subject.

The paintings would show the subject at different seasons or different times of day. Each of the resulting paintings would have an entirely different look and feel. Prior to the impressionist movement, most artists would use quick outdoor paintings simply as for creating a separate, final painting in an indoor studio. During the 1870s, Monet crafted a special boat that he used as a floating studio. He created many paintings while floating along the Seine River in France.

In his later years, Monet continued to create many great paintings, even though he had become nearly blind. What do you get when a broke artist runs out of gas on her way to pick up her kids at soccer practice? Someone with no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh. Why did painting go to jail? It was framed. What do you get when you put Monet and some other artists in a box? A chest of drawers. What did painting say to the hat? just hang here while you go on ahead.

A A I I A A A A I I I A A I A I A A I A I A THE NEWS OBSERVER6D A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010Life, etc. Into a strange camp One of the more stirring ac- counts is from Jesse Oxen- dine, a Lumbee Indian from Pembroke who speaks candid- ly of his experiences in Ger- many in 1945. Oxendine was a rifleman with the 82nd Airborne Divi- sion when he and his fellow soldiers discovered a camp full of who Oxendine says had lost so much weight they had all be- gun to look alike. wanted to come up and hug our he says of the liberated prisoners at belin Concentration Camp. The power of story comes in part from the innocence of this young man from a small North Carolina town who know any- thing about anti-Semitism and had trouble making sense of what he was seeing.

Oxendine remembers enter- ing a building that was full of people and wondering why they come out to wel- come the soldiers as the oth- ers had, soon realizing it was because they were so emaciat- ed and near death that they move. remember going up to one guy leaning against a wall, staring into Oxendine says. tapped him on the shoulder and he fell over. He had died with his eyes From everywhere The stories come from all corners of the state. Tom Alley of Charlotte was in the 101st Airborne Division and parachuted into Europe for the invasion of Normandy.

Alley describes having to shoot and kill a German pris- oner who tried to escape, ad- mitting with some emotion that he sat down and in the aftermath. fully real- ized it was not practice any- more. The first person you kill is the worst. never forget that. Bill Henderson, a Marine from Democrat, recalls find- ing his friend Buttermilk at Iwo Jima, thinking he looked as if he was buried in sand up to his waist and then realizing the bottom half of his body was blown away.

Henderson, who says he was not afraid of dying, only of not doing his duty, calls the dead and wounded real of the war. Hubert Poole, a lifelong Ra- leigh resident who grew up in the Oberlin neighborhood, trained at the only African- American Marine base in the country, Montford Point near Camp Lejeune. Poole, who had five broth- ers serving in the Army, was sent to Guadalcanal and Guam, where he served in a support position, because black soldiers were usually re- stricted from combat. And then Virginia Russell, a steely young flight nurse from Onslow County, and also Bill Ferebee of Mocksville, a Navy gunner in the Pacific whose brother Thomas Ferebee was the bom- bardier who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Then coming home While the remembrances of battle and fallen comrades are stirring, the most emotional segment of the film may be when the soldiers describe coming home.

Viewers will be hard- pressed to remain stoic while an 80-something-year-old man breaks up remembering what his mama said to him when he came home from war. And speaking of home, the film does a terrific job of de- scribing the state during that time of upheaval, from fami- lies watching for Germans off the coast of the Outer Banks to the industrial and military booms in Wilmington, Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. In short, this is a documen- tary that should be required viewing for every resident of the state. brooke.cain@newsobserver.com or 919-829-4579 Robert Youngdeer was first refused by a military recruiter, but he later joined the Marines. In action on Guadalcanal, he was shot in the face by a sniper.

COURTESY OF UNC-TV FOUNDATION WAR CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1D Galleries: See more photos related to Pearl Harbor and to the documentary at newsobserver.com/galleries. By Jeremy Gerard BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK he Scottsboro serious musicalthat drew protests and has struggled to find an audience since opening on Broadway on Oct. 31, will close on Sunday. pay our Barry Weissler said in a tele- phone interview. Weissler, who is the lead producer with his wife, Fran, said the show consistently failed to sell enough tickets to cover its weekly running costs at the Lyceum Theatre.

The musical, the final ef- fort by the composer-lyricist team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (who also co- wrote and among other celebrated shows), will close at a total loss of $5 million, Weissler said. That figure includes mon- ey Weissler and his partners invested in the original pro- duction last spring at the nonprofit Vineyard Theater off-Broadway and a subse- quent run at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis last summer. It also includes about $400,000 in loans the producers took out for the Broadway transfer, Weissler said. Scottsboro concerns the fate of nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the South during the Great Depression. It is staged by Susan Stroman, best known as the choreographer and di- rector of such hit shows as and Produc- The show failed to capture the imagination of theatergo- ers, as indicated by poor and declining ticket sales.

Last week, the show earned just $273,250, or 35 percent of its potential sales of $767,492, according to figures released by the Broadway League, a trade group that compiles theater statistics. It was one of the few shows to post a de- cline during the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday peri- od. The format of the musical, which presents the story as a minstrel show, has drawn fire from some in the black com- munity since the Broadway opening on Oct. 31. Much of the protest, including pick- ets in front of the theater, has come from people who said they had not seen the show.

there was any group that ought to have supported Scottsboro it was the very people protesting Weissler said. they were people who never saw Weissler spent a recent morning informing the com- pany of the closing. The deci- sion, he said, broke his heart. has been one of the finest things Fran and I have ever he said. is a very humbling will close on Broadway The serious musical Scottsboro was the final effort by the composer- lyricist team of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, who also co-wrote PAUL KOLNIK ASSOCIATED PRESS.