Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna gallery strode the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the crowns of Austria and Hungary. He took one look at the exhibition, and cried out in horror: "This man's bones should be broken in his body!" The violent paintings and portraits, with their savage slashes of color, their gnarled hands and twisted faces, didn't please the critics either. "Disgusting plague sores," one critic called them. "Puddles of foul stink." And the artist, he added, was "a mangy creature...
...Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little dog. Although the bright slashes of color were still there, some of the old violence seemed gone...
...much of his life, Bernard Lamotte has wandered over those same streets and alleys searching for mood and color, sometimes in the company of friendly flics, who took him along on evening patrols through the dark corners of Paris...
...over his sketches, Bernard scribbles shorthand notes on the time of day, the type of window frames, the age or make of an automobile, and then adds tiny numbers (one for light, ten for dark) that make up his color scheme. Even months later, "I can read the notes like a book-in three minutes...
...Democratic Convention takes the top spot this week on the four radio networks and 18 television stations. The four television networks, NBC (with LIFE), CBS, ABC and Du Mont, will again offer sidelights, speculation, scorekeeping, interviews and convention color; the TV stations will again pool resources for maximum coverage of doings on the floor of Convention Hall. The sideshows will get under way on Thursday, the main event on Monday evening, with Senator Barkley's keynote address...