Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truly fitting that the Gauguin exhibit should follow that of Van Gogh, for the two artists were kindred spirits in the world of art. Both at the end of the nineteenth century led the way out of the cramping formula of Impressionism and to both color was a means of expressing feeling and thought...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...pleasant as the letter was, it has not caused one-third as much comment as the full-color, full-profile picture of Burma herself that was enclosed, inscribed "To the club members at Winthrop House, with my very best wishes...
...exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp, low warp, ribs and slips, joined plain gallery-goers in gasps of sincere tribute to the vivid colorings, the exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even...
Last week Mr. Ketcham announced and demonstrated "Colorcable," his patented method of transmitting color from any where to anywhere in a matter of minutes. Confronted with a color sample at the transmitting end, the operator takes a number of variously colored disks, inserts them in a calibrated, electrically driven wheel. Whirling the wheel resolves the disks into one tone. Disks are added or subtracted until the color appearing on the wheel matches that of the sample. Then the number and color-designations of the disks are wired to the receiver, who has a disk-&-wheel...