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...work drew on the folk art he encountered in Germany and in Russia. The works depict an ideal premodern Russia full of riders, onion domes and walled towns. But even in these first paintings, bright colors were used for effect, not naturalism - trees could be red, hills and horses blue. Pure color would become the central focus of his best works, a focus he pondered in his 1911 manifesto of abstraction, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Art, he wrote in the book, comes from within, from "inner necessity," and colors and shapes speak to people just as musical sounds...
...surrounded by like-minded colleagues, he was now somewhat isolated. He had been experimenting in new directions before he left the Bauhaus, but his isolation, and freedom from the need to be didactic, may explain the playfulness that breaks out in his work. He carefully mixed colors - sage, sky blue, maroon - and experimented with texture, using controlled paint splatter for a sandy effect. Nothing is still: in Colorful Ensemble (1938) the splatters are a background of dots on which swim strange biomorphs; in Sky Blue (1940) stripy plankton flutter multiple legs while Reciprocal Accord (1942) fizzes and explodes...
...release, the various Tens combined to sell 55,000 copies - including an astonishing 10,000 of the $199 collector's edition. "People don't love music any less today than they ever have," says Block, who also oversaw last year's well-received $109.98 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition. "The right presentation still gets a response...
...Cambridge marked the Harvard sailing team’s busiest weekend of competition, with five regattas over the two days. While the sunny skies and fair conditions were surely enjoyed by the majority of Harvard students on campus, the Crimson sailors seemed to respond especially well to the blue skies and improved climate. After enduring a few recent weeks of struggles, both the Harvard women and the co-ed squad performed beautifully in the fair conditions...
...crowd erupted when Troupe refused to grant Big Green center fielder Brett Gardner first base after being hit by a pitch, ruling that the batter had failed to make an effort to get out of the way. Although disgruntled fans had a few choice words for the men in blue, Walsh implied that Dartmouth’s supporters may have suffered from selective memory—sophomore catcher Tyler Albright received the same call after being hit.“[The umpire] dug a hole for himself when Albright was called back, saying he was in the batter?...