Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later days, processions, gowns, and celebrations of "the four Georges," Queen Victoria, and King Edward VII, are illustrated by contemporary drawings and reports. Color pictures of the royal family, insignia, gowns, and coach at the coronation of the late George V, are also shown...
What surprised even the best-informed artists and connoisseurs, as they made their way past a great collection of full-scale water color and photographic reproductions which filled three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...last 20 years, Stravinsky has wandered far from his original inspiration. His musical concepts are now spare, straightforward, logical. When, in 1927. music-minded Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned him to write a ballet, he decided to make it "white." A "white ballet" does not use colored costumes or gaudy scenery, puts its emphasis on the dancing. Stravinsky was so anxious to keep Apollon Musagete free of color that he scored it only for strings...
...twelve pictures in de Botton's first one-man show in the U. S. are notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...
Finely photographed with plenty of local color and not too many of those beautiful Hollywood backdrops, one exciting moment follows another, the whole building up to an outdoor trial scene that is as nice a job of holding up the mirror as the screen has presented in some time...