Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commager classic appears, there comes a new contender: The Great Republic, written by six scholars-five of them winners of Pulitzer or Bancroft prizes. Their work is handsomely amplified with hundreds of black-and-white and duotone photographs, paintings and detailed maps, and interspersed with pictorial essays in sumptuous color...
...High Color. Throughout much of its length, The Great Republic reflects the complaint of an early U.S. scientist, who observed in 1800 that "the universal roar is, Commerce! Commerce! at all events, Commerce!" Ideology may have impelled many Americans, but for most, it seems, it was the purse that had its reasons. Though John Cabot had scouted the shores of North America as early as 1497, the English hardly deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend...
...Brazil is not just thythm and poetry and exquisite color prints. You will walk through Rio de Janeiro, city beneath Sugarloaf Mountain, between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, but also a city where, two blocks behind a luxury hotel begins a shanty town of 'favelas'" crowded on sewerless hillsides where plague lingers in the streets. Favelas that disgorge beggars who make rich tourists shiver and toss coins. Magic? Hardly...
...Harold Ernst Gallery at 161 Newbury is an absolute must, especially now until May 7 with its show of watercolors by Frederick Lynch. Lynch paints wonderful, witty caricatures of portly men and buxom women dressed in atrocious color combinations. The most remarkable aspect of the works is their brilliant, vibrant colors, a far cry from the misty, delicate landscapes so popular among watercolor artists...
...soon. Albers is well known for his squares within squares and his subtle tonal differentiation from square to square. The show includes these works called "Homage to the Square", but it features more prominently his "Mitered Squares" done in the last two years of his life. Again using subtle coloring and precise geometric figures, Albers creates in this series of prints an optical tunnel with clever interaction of color...