Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerns itself with color relativity-two burgundy stripes surround a red one, two reds an orange, and two oranges a yellow, reading down the canvas. Alex Packer's "Blues Progression" is a similar investigation of a hue family on a flat plane. His acrylics run from red-violet through aqua. But Packer's three-paneled work attributes more importance to form than does James Brown's-stripes end in curved edges, and three vertical stripes are halved in the last panel, leaving a blue one erect in solitary splendor. And Peter Sutton's "Homage a Picasso," one in oils, goes...
...money is attracting many companies. Last week Merck & Co., the drug manufacturers, agreed to pay $44 million in stock for Baltimore Aircoil Co., which earned $1.2 million in 1969 by making cooling towers to control thermal pollution of water. Last month the Coca-Cola Co. announced plans to acquire Aqua-Chem Inc., a Milwaukee water-purification firm. Alurm-num Co. of America moved late last year to set up a division that will develop and market antipollution systems...