Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...projects"), the brainchild of Eddie Murphy and perhaps the riskiest of Fox's new cartoon ventures. Murphy sold Imagine on his idea two years ago. The result is a visual tour de force. The puppeteers of the Will Vinton Studios, best known for the California Raisins, have created a colorful 3-D universe of intricately animated clay figures expressive enough to almost pop off the screen. Making sure they land in viewers' hearts is the mission of a writing staff led by executive producers Larry Wilmore and Steve Tompkins (two former stand-ups who met while writing for In Living...
...trendoids, your sprinkle of window dresser aspirants, your misguided cultural studies concentrator who wants to derive a thesis on window displays, but the real readers-and lovers-of this book will be your drab, gray non-aesthete nobodies of life. For them, Doonan, with the aid of 200 full color illustrations and a glossary of exotic terms like "whomp" and "nelly," whips up in print the sort of kinky, macabre fairealism which has made his name in Madison Avenue windows. It is a big-money, high-luxury alternate reality stripped of those issues which "haunt those with more down...
...French high culture, until one remembers that not all artists are happy if they are starving. Details of the teaching, evolution and politics of art and artists alike are recounted in succinct, if not breathtaking, prose. Stylistic languages, frivolous fads and "debates at the Academy on the merits of color versus line" populate the world of French draftsmanship...
...wonderful thing about a drawing is that, it is not a painting. Subtle grays and browns and blacks can say as much as all the loud and crazy color combinations in the world. Obvious shades of garish greens or purples can make a painting more fantastic than real life, but sometimes it is better to be delicate and agile when examining reality or even fantasy. With drawings, it is possible to be simpler and more subdued but at the same time to make a powerful connection with each person who looks at the drawing--everyone will see something different...
What relatively little color there is can be a delight, as the general tone of the exhibition is one of restraint. A popular technique of the period was trois cmyons, the use of black, red and white chalks. Black chalk and pastels were used in Head of Potiphar's Wife to create a drawing that anyone could mistake for a painting. Red and black chalk work their magic in Young Woman Holding a Cornucopia; the folds of her robe are so well defined, yet shadowed at the same time, that one must wonder whether the work is a drawing...