Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was doubt of Artist Grosz's accomplishment in oil, the wiry strength, textural richness, clean color and solid finish of several still life and nude studies dispelled it. But the gaiety and sensuous life of these paintings made all the more striking a number of gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service...
They reveal the three main characteristics of variable stars--their variable change in color, their period, and their physical make...
Generally known as "Flemish primitives," these 15th-Century artists were primitive in little but their religious sincerity. Modern painters marvel at the jewel-like permanence of color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...
...Nine years later he was in Manhattan, buying a stable of Pulitzer writers for his Journal, whooping it up for Bryan and the Cubans. A few months before Richard Harding Davis started sending his naming dispatches from Havana, Hearst got a press that would print 16 pages in color, and the same generation that grew up to worship Dewey and Hobson and T. R., and went around whistling There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, got many a laugh out of the Yellow Kid, Happy Hooligan and the Katzenjammer Kids...
...Concerning scenes, the first and last are too long, the others good; the scene where the two starts get slightly squiffed on applejack and take down their hair is excellent, likewise the one in which Miss Chatterton finds that the new plumbing fixtures she has ordered are not the color she expected...