Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broads, the better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
Never was art more "modern." Some of the pictures were mere dabs, streaks and splashes of color; others showed impossible animals and people with grinning Balloon heads on stick bodies wobbling up out of knee-high skyscrapers. There were "abstractions" made of pasted scraps and bits of string; portraits of black-mustached papas; princesses sitting between curtains of golden hair; fish flying over ocean liners; a pink & purple Christmas tree, and multicolored cowboys lassoing long-horned swirls of mud. Yet few visitors to the show in Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last week indignantly asserted that their kids...
...growth of the infant television industry has been stunted by a prodigious argument over its care & feeding. Should television broadcasts be in black & white or in color? Last week, after 14 weeks of weighing the testimony, the Federal Communications Commission finally ruled in favor of black & white...
Then CBS, which spent some $2,000,000 on a color system stepped in. CBS asked FCC to grant it a license to televise in color. RCA, which had nearly $100,000,000 at stake, opposed this...
...statement from the Red Cross read in part: "We understand there has been a racial controversy at the Club. The Red Cross cannot take sides in a controversy of this sort." They asserted though, that the services of the group are available to all, regardless of "race, creed, or color...