Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than three galleries given over to Shahn's art contain a wide variety of works. There are a number of book illustrations, drawings, Christmas cards--a selection of large graphic works including examples of his "commerical" art, as well as the more familiar paintings done in tempera, water color and gauche. Some of the artists best known works will be missed, such as Handball and Red Stairway, but these deficiencies are compensated for by the inclusion of many unusual and out of the way pieces...
...revolution in painting that we know generally as modern art means anything, it is the liberation of color and form not merely for their own sake, but for more complete human expression. This is the accomplishment of Shahn...
...People's Testimony and Defile, painted from the window of Rivera's room in Moscow's National Hotel and both depicting scenes in Red Square, caught the bleakness of Moscow's winter and the immensity of the square with some of his old dash and color...
...could wish, but rather more than the ear can bear. The music sounds like a sneak attack on Debussy by MacNamara's band, and the commentary reads like a TV pitch for nature's way, spelled backwards. Yet across the screen there moves in lustrous color a beautifully photographed freak show. At its best, it is popular science at not very far from its best...
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...