Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prophet Mohammed's favorite color...
...marts is the Knoedler Galleries. Last week its suave brown velvet walls burgeoned with weird birds, impossible flowers, strange writhing figures wrought from paint so thick that it seemed as much sculpture as painting. Art critics, society reporters and psychiatrists hurried over to see them for three reasons: Brilliant color and an unquestioned sense of design make them worthy of serious attention as works of art. They were painted by the third wife of wealthy Irving Ter Bush. Mrs. Bush insists that they are "automatic paintings" produced under occult control...
First issue of D S preserves a careful balance between business and frivolity. Cover design, by Truck Driver Otto Ernst, is a chaste night scene in water color showing impressive snow plows and soldierly men clearing the drifts from around Washington Arch...
Constantly shifting like the tumbling specks of color in a kaleidoscope, are the bright covers of magazines dotting a newsstand. Nearly every month some magazine disappears-perhaps several. But their passing discourages new ventures no more than human death affects the birth rate...
...mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever it is that is being operated on. The next morning she will hand over to the surgeon for his hospital files accurately colored drawings of infected areas that could not easily be photographed, before and after...