Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
Burra is Britain's most successfully shocking surrealist. At 44, he has done the sets and costumes for four ballets and an opera, consistently delighted his tight, bright circle of admirers with such fantasies as Procession (see cut), in which evil red eyes peep from a paraded kettle. "See?" Burra says, "It's going to boil over and swamp them all. The beggar is getting out of the way-he hasn't a chance...
...solve this problem," said the bartender, "would be for the King to abdicate and let his son Baudouin come back and be King. We hear young Baudouin isn't too bright, but who the hell wants a bright King? Only it looks as if it isn't going to happen because our King is a stubborn, bitter...
Like Sutherland's landscapes, the portrait had the hot, bright colors of the Riviera, where he lives much of the year. His landscapes, more than halfway abstract, showed things like grasshoppers hopping into scarlet immensities and bushes brandishing their thorns at green skies. The portrait was equally harsh. Posed against a livid yellow background, Maugham sat with folded arms beneath a fringe of tropical palms. His jut-jawed old face seemed to betray a struggle between pain and hauteur...
...bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society. Some of its finds-notably an overstuffed, off-key performance of the Operatic Society-are bright and amusing. Other bits & pieces have already been tarnished by too much handling...