Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...than the scene?more than the next It handbag. I remember visiting Yves Saint Laurent's studio for an haute couture preview when the designer himself was still working, fitting dresses on models. Saint Laurent and his aide-de-camp Loulou de La Falaise were yanking huge bolts of color-saturated Abraham silk down from the shelves and spinning out a fantasy scene of a hot summer day in New Orleans circa 1860, complete with big taffeta skirts and wide-brimmed hats. It was as if the fabric were speaking to him?and so vividly that even the model looked...
...birthmark near her navel that is the exact color of Vegemite...
DIED. Frank Snowden Jr., 95, Howard University classicist and pioneer in the field of blacks in antiquity; in Washington. He developed a passion for the field at the Boston Latin School and Harvard and went on to write books, including Before Color Prejudice, showing that ancient Greece was comparatively free of the violent racism that plagued later Western nations. One of the explanations he offered was that Greeks and Romans first encountered blacks as soldiers and mercenaries, not as slaves...
...said. “In some of the work that I am doing now, the gesture is the subject of the work.” Her eclectic social awareness manifests itself in works of painting, sculpture, and decorative art that represent a consistent use of geometric construction and bold colors. Heilmann’s work shows a remarkable stylistic consistency, though Heilmann is careful to discount the importance of chronology when discussing her work. For instance, the 67-year-old New Yorker still creates work that evokes the free spirit of art in the 1960?...
...drag, grabbing her crotch every available moment, and threatening to “act like a boy” to one that has presumably done something to hurt her. The dancing is good but it’s common to every female R&B/pop video. The black and white color scheme makes the video even less interesting. “Like a Boy” ultimately reveals the unfortunate truth that Ciara’s just not charismatic enough. The video relies almost totally on her–her face, her legs, and her dancing (basically everything but her singing...