Word: apricot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proclaiming no new doctrines and founding no new schools, I hit the last wall four hours later and proceeded to create stately, bold, blaring, cherry, apricot, pale gold, mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon, whistling blue sails of forms. No gimmicks or gadgetry here, thank you. Carefully avoiding dehumanization and de-sexualization (in the painterly tradition), I strove to leave out as many myriad forms and colors as was possible. When finished, the wall seemed to cry out: "My name is Pat O'Connor-and goddammit, I can paint as well as Helen Frankenthaler...
...heroic. Currently, frame and subject seem superbly conjoined in a display of 46 huge, brilliantly colored canvases by Helen Frankenthaler. There, on the impassive walls, color gardens of imaginary flowers bloom with subtle petals of mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon. There are stately, bold, blaring rectangles of cherry and apricot, leaping palegold fires, whistling blue sails of form...
Raspberry-lime rickeys are good in this weather and so is Ballantine Ale and so is Dannon Apricot Yogurt. Big, thick, greasy Elsie Burgers are not good. Ice cream cones are not good. They are sticky and they chalk up your mouth and make you thirsty, but you eat them anyway. The line is long at Brigham's and it is air-conditioned there...
...Plum & Apricot. His latest show is also largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen...
...paintings, for all their bizarre imagery, are alive with color. De Kooning's intricate palette combines lemon, lime, fig, plum, raspberry, apricot and apple-blossom pink. Flooding the canvas is the clear country light that streams through his $200,000 studio, a structure that has gone through almost as many alterations as one of his paintings...