Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America," an exhibition of portraits from all periods. This week Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery opened an exhibition called "The American Vision," a show based on and selected from TIME'S new book, Three Hundred Years of American Painting, which contains 250 reproductions of paintings in full color, an unprecedented presentation of U.S. art in book form...
...paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...
...MADE DIAMONDS will be mass-produced in U.S. for first time, ending dependence on South Africa for critical industrial jewels. General Electric Co. has finally perfected process that duplicates color, clarity and hardness of natural diamonds. Price is still higher than natural diamonds ($425 v. $285 per carat), but will be fully competitive next year...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...
After two miles the field remained a moving mass of color, half a dozen horses still in contention coming up to the final hedges of the $50,000 Temple Gwathmey, the richest steeplechase in the world. Then, as if he were tired of company, a steel-muscled brute named Neji shouldered his all-but-impossible impost of 173 lbs., sailed over the last jump like a larking colt, sprinted down the Belmont stretch and won by seven lengths...