Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Pilot Verne W. Harshman, naval aviator on maneuvers off the coast of Colombia in 1931, was forced down by bad weather, kept afloat on his CO2-filled raft five days. Only trouble he encountered was sharks, which were attracted by the raft's color (orange-yellow for high visibility). Result: the navy changed the color of life-rafts' bottoms to olive drab...
Author of a novel called Son of Han, Sociopsychologist La Piere writes with more color and smoothness than most of his colleagues, draws much of his material from newspapers and magazines. Hence, he scrutinizes a number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought...
Probably the only U. S. artist equally eminent in photography and painting, Sheeler spent six weeks in 1927 photographing the Ford plant at River Rouge. Doubting critics to whom Charles Sheeler's industrial paintings seem to deviate from photographic realism only in their fine selectivity and arbitrary color values may disagree with Biographer Rourke about the degree of three-dimensional design underlying them. More clearly a fusion of abstraction and realism are earlier paintings of farmhouse interiors, later paintings of patterned objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves...
...Hawthorne, a painter's job was to "show people more than they already see," and beauty in art he defined as "the delicious notes of color one against the other." To see things simply, he insisted, is the hardest thing in the world-"When a man is sixty or seventy, he may be able to do a thing simply, and the whole world rejoices...
This week the proofs of a volume* of Hawthorne aphorisms, exhortations and technical advice, assembled from notes taken by his students, appeared with a warm introduction by venerable Critic Royal Cortissoz. Made up of brief, pungent essays on water color and oil painting, followed by paragraphs devoted to Hawthorne comments on specific work by his students, Hawthorne an Painting proved an excellent introduction for laymen and students alike...