Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princess Anne GETS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS, headlined the paper, disclosing that a devious dialer had uncovered Anne's top-secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case of "nuisance calls" and denied that Anne herself had actually heard the prankster, police...
...less the painterly heroics of abstract expressionism than the "media landscape"-to borrow a phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness that it belonged to an order other than nature. Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from...
...Smith was clearly one of the most gifted colorists on either side of the Atlantic. This was acknowledged (amid much protest from the French) when in 1967 he won the grand prize at the São Paulo Biennale. His use of color was radiant without facile sweetness, and he could move across the spectrum with an assurance similar to that of natural pitch in a musician. But, as he recalls, "I realized I couldn't spend my life painting cigarette packets, and the structure of my early pieces was beginning to look adventitious...
...style, English art has never felt like American, and one of the differences has to do with sociability. Smith's work is quite conversational in its ease of style. Like Caro's or Hockney's, it is permeated with a casual, offhand rightness about material, color and meetings of shape, but it is not polemical. No proposition about the future of art is being shoved in one's face. Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor of nonnegotiable demands on the viewer's eye and sense of history...
...taken nearly 1,000 lives. The worldwide recession proved devastating to an economy already damaged by a decade of international sanctions. Despite his troubles, Smith, 56, a gentleman cattle farmer, said defiantly only six weeks ago: "I don't accept the principle of government based on color." Black nationalists replied that Rhodesia already had a government based on color: 85,000 of its 273,000 whites are able to vote, but only 7,500 of its 5.8 million blacks...