Word: checkerboard
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...light," said Bonnard, and he was an ingenious supplicant. In the checkerboard tiles that pattern his work, the color changes to harmonize with nearby colors. Nude flesh becomes a chameleon mirror for interior hues; a bathtub becomes an irregular cocoon for the human form. Bonnard's pictures are made of optical bewilderment and caprices of color...
...major hotels from his drawing board-nine of them Hiltons, with three more Hiltons in the works. San Francisco's antique building codes gave him a rough time, and now that the hotel is finished, there is much head shaking over the look of it-a gleaming checkerboard of glass and marble that has been compared to a white-on-white box of Ralston...
Tabler explains that the checkerboard design is dictated by the fact that the building is braced against earthquakes not only horizontally and vertically but diagonally, and the diagonal girders run through every other square of the checkerboard. "This is the safest hotel in the world," he says. "When an earthquake comes, the people who have been criticizing the outside appearance of the hotel are going to be a lot more complimentary than they...
...probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...
...Andrew Wyeth's A Day at the Fair, a drybrush watercolor of a Negro girl alone at home. Its social side is found in Jack Levine's police dogs in Birmingham '63. Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz' blinding checkerboard or in Ellsworth Kelly's triad of yellow tongues. Pop art's proponent is James Rosenquist's Morning Sun, with a plastic awning rising to stifle a billboard model's yawn...