Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday Brooks indicated that although the Register will not change in form or content, the Red Book will differ in color plan from books of former years...
...will watch the guardians themselves?" is the inviting slogan of the magazine. Well, if I am to be the watchdog this time, I will bark and say that the November issue has taken on a bit of the color of the month in which it appears...
...pages (some $37,000 worth) from Chesterfield, Dodge, Universal Pictures, Sal Hepatica, Kleenex, Feen-a-mint, other medicinals & knickknacks. Ned Doyle's crew is concentrating on the 1938 schedules, since Look will guarantee 2,000,000 circulation effective May 10, raise its full-page, onetime, one-color rate...
...followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive...
...Daumier had "Michelangelo under the skin," until 1860, when he was 52, he had scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...