Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers are all in the Persian style of clear, brilliant, primarily decorative design...
...life-size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make it unlawful to design, engrave, print or in any manner make or execute anything in the likeness of any obligation...
...negotiated Dick Durrance's giant slatom on Mount Washington. Hunter, who was a member of last year's Dartmouth team which swept all events in the Sun Valley invitation tournament, won in the amateur division of the event. He is now studying in the Graduate School of Design. Hunter's allegiance will be divided when the Crimson ski team participates in the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival on February...
Modern Colonnade. Restrained as its glamor mostly is, and unified by a compact and accessible plan, the Fair may well weary its visitors less, refresh them more than if it had serious pretensions. From a structural standpoint it is preeminently stage design, fakery. Two big hangar buildings of steel and concrete and an administration building, all permanent fixtures of the new airport, are exceptions to this rule, and greatest exception of all is the Federal Building, separated from the rest by a lagoon and a parade ground. This is the work of San Francisco's genial, hardbitten, unpredictable Timothy...
Though his landscapes sometimes melted too much in atmospheric blues, his design was usually crisp and all his own. In a few pictures, like Fête de Suquet, with its bright, yellow, sunstruck, secretive buildings and dancing figures, he achieved without strain a poignancy of design that some modern painters sweat for. In 1937 the Paris Exposition awarded him his greatest honor: the Grand Prix for painting...