Word: colourant
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...essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium of personality. Only the uninitiate would complain that Seurat should have painted in strokes...
Rivera is, at his best, a pocket-size Homer, at his worst a billboard-calendarist wooing the tourist trade. And for all the movement and technical preciseness and colour, Diego Rivera has never been, certainly is not, Mexico's or the Hemisphere's greatest living artist...
...dramatic moment. "The palette gleamed with beads of colour; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air . . ." Winston Churchill had just sat down, at 43, to paint his first oil. In a jolly essay entitled "Painting as a Pastime" and published in London last week, the great statesman described where his hobby had led him. Actually the essay had first appeared in 1932 as two chapters in a little-read book called Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures; but Churchill had then been in eclipse-the same kind of eclipse...
...same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If you need something to occupy your leisure, to divert your mind from the daily round . . . there is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and colour...
...Titian.'" Layman: 'Oh - no - that can't have been my daughter - that was Ethel Baird.' " Gamesman: 'Really. But I thought I was talking to your - ' " Layman: 'You were, but that was earlier on.'" Gamesman: 'Was it - but what was the colour of your daughter's hair?" Layman: 'Well-a sort of brown-' Gamesman: "Of course. Of course. Of course...