Word: grayness
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...mother sitting near a baby's cradle, reading aloud to an older woman by candlelight; and Van Gogh's 1885 The Potato Eaters, his first major figure painting, so dark that its five peasants, seated at a table beneath a gaslight, seem covered in coal dust. That palette of gray, black and bottle-green marked Van Gogh's somber style ("Painting peasants is a serious business," he observed) until he moved to Paris at the beginning of 1886 and, as the show's curators note, "underwent one of the greatest transformations in the history of art." In the Paris museums...
...That coat I have over there?” she says, pointing to a gray parka hanging on a doorknob. “Exeter bought it for me. It’s the only winter coat I have, and I still wear it. They knew I was in danger of dropping out and going to back to Houston, so they always made me feel like I was surrounded by a million people who cared...
Hanging scrolls with magnificent calligraphy, shimmering gilded statues, ritual objects and a natural installation of beautifully eroded soft gray limestone greet visitors on the second-floor galleries of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
...exhibit even gives visitors a glimpse of a traditional Chinese garden courtesy of its “Garden Rocks” installation, a unique set of eroded gray limestone rocks and plants that receives both natural and artificial light. This magnificent Ming Dynasty formation, set off from the rest of the exhibition in its own recessed niche, spiritually thrusts upwards toward the open...
Standing under a gray granite overhang as snow accumulated in the Government Center plaza, two students carried poster boards reading, “We are here to defend immigrant rights. Talk to us before you register with the INS,” in large print...