Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums. Sil-houet prints contrast the curves of a roller-coaster runway with the straight lines of tall supports. The emphasis in the toboggan cars suggests a pattern of the Orient rather than Coney Island. So called "message prints" (letters of various sizes & colors printed on a lighter background) spell out such words as "It," "Cheerio...
...English and American Political Parties: A Comparison and Contrast," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall...
...Comparison and Contrast," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall...
...other hand in the "Fountain of Trevi" we find tones that contrast and mingle and as a result create an atmospheric sensation. The cooler tones are employed on the figures of a fountain while the warm yellow and orange of the palazzo in the background are contrasted to the former with successful result...
...attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted. In "Mrs. Gardner's Portrait" in the Gardner Museum...