Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slim and stately aboard her official horse Imp, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery...
...paralleled Van Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy...
...canvas composed of only a white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant...
...pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color, and will move into half of Robert Montgomery's Monday place next month. Although such giveaways as Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also mercifully scrapping...
...then perhaps a city's best tourist guides are her painters. The mind's eye of genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around which Art Critic Courthion's social and artistic commentary flows with the unobtrusive authority of the Seine...