Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something else: the eagle, shield and fouled anchors on Commander Bucher's hat appear to be all gold or brass color. Actually, the eagle and shield are always silver, while the fouled anchors are always gold or brass color...
...1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained for a myriad of advanced synthetics and plastics to make see-through sculpture a burgeoning art form in the 1960s (see color opposite...
Wind-Whipped Icicle. Among the recognized leaders is Los Angeles' Larry Bell, 28, who began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
Wrong Note, Right Touch. One thing all decorators agree on. Their job is to express the client's personality, not their own. Methods vary for discovering just what that personality is. "I look in the woman's closet to see what color her clothes are," says Ellen McCluskey. Says David Bell: "I look at the color of their eyes." Both regard the husband's participation as essential. "After all, he has to live in it and pay for it," says Bell. Adds McCluskey: "I've often found that he's on a budget...