Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morris Louis, one of the most romantic of the color abstractionists, pours paint on a raw canvas, letting a veil of color soak into the material. Fluid color is freed to run and spread it chooses yet you sense a mind breathing the components into perfect combination...
ARTISTS could not achieve the dazzling effects of color with any smaller canvases. Size intensifies color. You remember color in all its revelations-color dripping, blooming, floating, color that hurts your eyes, color from spring...
...show fellows recent American work beginning with the Abstract Expressionists, and progressing through various experiments by color abstractionists up to Minimal Artists, Pop with its familiar fandango of images, and a few other works that stand outside the mainstream of the New York School are also there. The museum gives each artist a lot of space, usually at least half a room, so the viewer can see some progression of the individual's style...
...film almost entirely narrated by Miller, follows him through his early years, from his childhood in Brooklyn to his blissful exile in Paris. The past is recreated through Miller's readings from his autobiographical works, the reminiscing of Miller and his friends old photographs and manuscripts, and through brilliant color shots of the Paris that Miller knew. The camera's eye focuses on the street life of Paris that Miller knew so intimately-the cafes and whorehouses, the rooftops and benches, the stores and moviehouses, the colors of the fruits and bowers. The Paris street people-the vagabonds drunkards...
...became an apprentice and a journeyman at age 20. I migrated to England where I worked for several well-known establishments during which time I entered The British Institute of Engineering Technology to study Interior and Exterior Decorating and Painting, specializing in color pigments, marbleizing, staining, graining, etc., and was awarded a diploma upon completion, was made a member of the Institute for life enabling me to use the initials A.M.I.E.T. Also I have worked for several Union and Non-Union outfits in Boston and at one time operated a business of my own before I came to Harvard...