Word: colorations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...place to be was San Francisco. The California School of Fine Arts, which in the 1930s had brought Diego Rivera to San Francisco, had suddenly burst into life again, this time around two fiery abstract painters, Russian-born Mark Rothko, who was scrubbing canvases with shimmering bands of color, and North Dakota-born Clyfford Still, whose outsize paintings suggested both Western canyons and bark peeled from a tree. Talented younger men (notably Sam Francis and Lawrence Calcagno) spread the Rothko-Still gospel in staccato dab-and-dash across the U.S. and on to Paris and Rome...
...that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want." The result was to sire a new and on the whole gentler generation of San Francisco figure painters, most conspicuous of whom is Richard Diebenkorn (TIME color, March 17, 1958). Park, 48, who sold 14 canvases at prices from $500 to $2,000 in a one-man show at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last month, still keeps the thick colors, fat brush strokes and overall concern with surface that marks the abstract expressionists, but he frankly welcomes figures...
...Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Music and dancing by the team that put the sparkle into last year's award-winning show: Astaire, Barrie Chase, the Jonah Jones Quartet, David Rose and his orchestra, and Producer-Director Bud Yorkin. Color...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical salute to the armed forces, starring Singers Johnny Desmond, John Raitt, Jaye P. Morgan, Ballerina Allegra Kent and the Coast Guard Glee Club. Color...
Opera (NBC, 4-6 p.m.). The network's opera company presents a new English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Starring Irene Jordan, John Alexander and Lee Cass. Color...