Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With these few exceptions, the formal element in Gerassi's painting has been reduced to a minimum. What the pictures lack in content of line and structure, they make up in color and texture. The result is "a warm and sunny kind of innocence." Gerassi's preference for emotion over thought is expressed even by the fact that curves take precedence over straight lines or angles. When angularity occurs it is usually accompanied by a more structural effort, where space and form are more defined, as in "Ulysses." But on the whole, the curve, that is the lyric sense, prevails...
...life and death of Dr. William Palmer is a sordid, shabby story of a man of natural ability who was never more than a step ahead of his creditors or his latest female conquest, but Graves has achieved the maximum of variety and color by making up accounts of people who knew Palmer and who tell their stories to the invisible narrator. Further, he has written in a remarkable imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
Giving its description of the excitement and local color, the Herald added, "The members of the visiting team were...really distinguished from the home candidates, if for nothing more than a cleanly aspect, in marked contrast to the American athletes, who as a class, have yet to learn of the launderers...
...illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although the opera tends to bog down in a weary series of recitatives, the choral writing is marked by a lush, dark-hued beauty, and the hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success, Van Gogh has already brought Kodalli nibbles from the Vienna Opera and Brussels' 1958 world's fair...