Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have any interest in inventing stuff when you were a kid? When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! Obviously, the Ford Motor Company is not very happy with me this week, so I will just give that idea to the Olive Garden Corporation...
...late work running at London's Tate Modern. By the time he made them, Rothko was at the height of his powers as an artist. He was also a favorite among rich collectors, which didn't sit well with him. Were the moneymen buying his beckoning fogbanks of color simply because they found them decorative? Possibly; that may be one reason why, in 1957, his palette darkened. Nothing about a glowering picture like Four Darks in Red, completed in 1958, suggests it was painted to go with the curtains...
...world, have taken some curious evolutionary turns. The nocturnal aye-aye, for instance, has a long, skeletal middle finger that enables it to retrieve grubs from inside trees; the hook-billed vanga evolved a curved bill for a similar reason, while the horned-leaf chameleon can change color to match the dead leaves on the floor of western Madagascar's dry deciduous forest...
...Brothers and Big Sisters, and Boston Cares said they saw HollaDay as a forum to recruit volunteers. The importance of HollaDay had particular resonance this year in light of Boston’s Commonwealth Compact, a community initiative to make Massachusetts a location of choice for people of color. “We figure if people feel more comfortable in a place and enjoy it more they’ll stay,” Lee said. “If you connect students inside Boston to the community, after they graduate it will be harder to sever these ties...
...with Plow,” Wein simplifies, so that the man in the sculpture lacks incredible muscularity, and instead exudes a rustic, humanistic charm. With downcast eyes, the man and his plow seem almost coy. This same coyness is paired with broad, vibrant strokes of color in “Geisha No. 2,” an abstract painting that is arguably one of Wein’s most striking works. Two shy geishas press their white faces together, enveloped in the rich folds of their gowns. The painting may still evoke the up-close and personal feel...