Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suprematist Kasimir Malevitch to Jasper Johns have turned out white-on-white paintings; Ad Reinhardt experimented with black on black. Latest and farthest-out researcher is Cali fornia's Robert Irwin, 39, who has developed pictures composed of light on light. Each painting consists of a white aluminum disk, sprayed at the edges with a subtle blush of blue, pink or grey. Mounted 15 or 20 inches from the wall, the disks are lit by four small spotlights, which cast phantasmal shadows on the wall behind...
...effect, incompletely conveyed by photographs, should surprise no ophthalmologist. It is caused by what is known as "retinal bleaching." When the eye gazes fixedly at the disk, the strong white light reflected from its center falls on the retina, causing a chemical substance in the center to temporarily bleach away. This causes local fatigue, and makes the center of the image appear less intense-a kind of blinding. Thus the weaker light from the disk's edge and the shadows beyond are perceived more intensely than the center and appear more vivid...
...standard road car, not a finely tuned racer. Penske's entries were no run-of-the-showroom models, to be sure; at a cost approaching $25,000 apiece, each machine had been modified for racing with the addition of everything from a souped-up 440-h.p. engine to disk brakes on all four wheels. Yet the cars merely mirrored, albeit on a grand scale, a burgeoning off-track trend toward faster road cars-and Ralph Nader be damned...
...course, is that it had never really gone, neither in Britain nor in the U.S. It may have been overshadowed in the past few years by a wave of such experimental groups as the Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Cream, not to mention the Beatles. But, as Chicago Disk Jockey Jim Stagg says, "basic rock, straight rock, has always been around and part...
...seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys rarely credit orchestra leaders by name. But that was before Love Is Blue became red hot. Now color him gold...