Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women, a pastel-toned oil in the familiar, delicately decadent manner of France's aging Marie Laurencin...
...Hyde Park, this 27-room house is hard by the Persian and Afghanistan legations. Down the street, in case of trouble, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Royal Horse Guards. Last week Ethiopian Princess Asfa Yilma redecorated the Emperor's London hide out, the drawing room in pastel pink, the dining room in grey, the offices in primrose...
...free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp, low warp, ribs and slips, joined plain gallery-goers in gasps of sincere tribute to the vivid colorings, the exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even the blurred edges of pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic distortions no more inspiring in cloth than on canvas. But then they could turn with genuine pleasure to Jean Lurçat's bright, graceful Le Ruisseau-a stream...
...some other candidate, he will be a powerful vote-getter. Judging the political situation as a whole, it is more important to follow the old wheel-horse's speeches and actions with great attention than it is to follow blindly Landon, Borah, Knox, or Vandenburg, or any other pastel-shaded "horse" of the Republican party...
...sentimentalists there were such pieces as the flashily painted Exit Clown, Ballet Girl and Harlequin, and the portrait of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. And for college boys there were the Shinn nudes, mostly in pastel on colored paper with the high lights carefully brought out. There were enough of these young ladies gazing into mirrors (see cut), reclining on sofas, etc., etc. to outfit a dozen cocktail bars...