Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really alike underneath, Americans are apt to underrate their own heritage. Not Hopper, who says flatly that "a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people." A sampling of the best American painting can prove Hopper's point (see color pages...
...were taken at 12,000 ft. by Italian air force Veteran Vitale Valvassori. Some of the shots showed faint markings that Alfieri's experienced eye spotted at once. He hired Valvassori, partly with his own money, to take detailed, low-level pictures in both black-and-white and color...
...Clicquot Club Eskimos, Amos 'n' Andy, Graham MacNamee and the first short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...
...stop with art lovers, for Leonardo may well have possessed the greatest creative intelligence in human history. The paintings alone (La Gioconda. The Last Supper, Portrait of a Young Woman) would have been quite enough to ensure his place in world art-and the major ones are here, in color, on pages large enough to illustrate his mastery, his humanity and his imaginative understanding. But the book also includes hundreds of drawings, the sketches for inventions that range from military catapults to flying machines, proof of his restless talents as anatomist, engineer, geographer, mechanical wizard. This volume, the work...