Word: colorful
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Along with its eye for color, ERTS has another useful capability. Because of the timing of its polar orbit, the satellite passes over the same spot on earth at almost precisely the same hour every 18 days. Lighting conditions at each site are thus unchanged (except for the slow seasonal drift in the angle of the sun and possibly different cloud cover). As a result, there is little difference in shadows from one picture to the next, and ERTS can quickly spot any changes in terrestrial features since its last visit...
...case in point is Sam Francis. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in the early '50s he provided Europe with its first intimations of those U.S. Abstract-Expressionist characteristics that would colonize Paris and London by the decade's end: the glowing, saturated color, the vigor of handling, the expansive scale. Yet Francis, who moved to Paris in 1950 and took Europe as his ground (with much traveling in Mexico and the Orient, especially Japan), suffered the common fate of Homo transatlanticus: rebuked for his Frenchery, he was nudged to the outside rim of the Abstract...
...amidst the general flabbiness that the School of Paris was suffering at the time. Sam Francis, as Robert Buck Jr. notes in his catalogue essay, "was almost alone [in Paris] as a contemporary artist furthering one of the strongest traditions in French art-a joyous and unrestrained love of color...
Ceiling Watcher. Color and its vibrations have always been central to Francis' work. Son of a California mathematics professor, his career as a painter began in 1943 when, age 20, he was bedridden from a spinal injury sustained when his Air Force fighter crashed. The hospital was on the coast of California, and Francis spent weeks watching the shift and bloom of light on the Pacific, and its reflections on the ceiling-projected, as it were, on a blank canvas. Here Francis discovered a motif to which he would constantly return: the specific qualities and the substantiality of light...
WEDNESDAY: Jacques Cousteau Cousteau continues his intriguing series of undersea specials with a look at The Smile of the Walrus," CH. 5, 8 p.m. Color...