Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they kept pace with press briefings, government receptions and panel discussions, the tour members-some of them veterans of previous TIME trips -proved willing and capable newsmen. They took notes along the way, shot rolls of black and white and color film and, above all, asked questions...
Spanish Influence. Rome's Daily American describes Berlinguer as "a movie type caster's idea of an Italian radical." He is slight, wiry, crewcut, courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates...
...Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset once compared a work of art to a window through which life can be seen without the need to account for the structure, transparency and color of the windowpane. Nowadays, most artists would argue that quite the reverse is true. With cameras available to record the view behind the windowpane, the artist must concentrate on making his window preeminent. In fact, the 20th century has witnessed the development of a genre that consists of windows seen through other windows: in other words, works of art that deal with other works...
...canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served as the model for a collage by Alfred Di Lauro and a painting by John Clem Clarke (see color...
...unnerve some viewers all by himself. He paints what, at first glance, looks perilously like clumsy reproductions of valuable old masters. On second glance, the suspicious would-be buyer sees that Clarke has deliberately differentiated his "reproduction" from the originals by using a stylized process that reduces their complex color schemes to a few relatively simple components. "I liken the process," he says, "to sending a telegram wherein you use the fewest, most precise words for the meaning of the message...