Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point. Miss Welty is apparently interested in the world and in people chiefly as embodiments of love, enchantment and death. Moreover, Miss Welty is not writing stories. She is using words to create works of art which lie somewhere between lyric poetry, painting, the still untouchable possibilities of color photography, and dancing. A young Negro dandy in a zoot suit becomes, in Miss Welty's perception, an image of almost Shakespearean loveliness...
Same Shirt, New Color. Later, some of the extreme Fascist laws will be repealed. But under the pretense of urgency and the guise of martial law "the government will continue to keep the press, the associations, the assemblies, and all labor and trade unions under strict control. What was formerly the Fascist militia will don a shirt of another color and take another name, but it will continue to act as the political police of the regime...
...Board of Governors also voted into membership a Negro, Municipal Court Justice James S. Watson of New York City.* At its final session, the convention resolved that "membership in the American Bar Association is not dependent on race, creed or color." But Applicant Rivers is still waiting...
This production capacity and Varda's color theory (each picture should be remembered for one color) interlace. "I can work fast in collage," he says, "because I know that I am going to do a yellow painting. I work knee-deep in papers. When I find the right yellow, I can go to work like a puma...
Painter Varda also includes just enough of some subsidiary color in each collage to "perfume or accent" the dominant color. "This perfume," says Varda, "makes the painting sing." Sometimes he gets effects of transparency by dabbing nuances of background color on foreground subjects. As long as the effect is stimulating and gay, Varda says: Damn the blotches...