Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Stevens Institute of Technology Calder talks as laconically about his work as any straw-sucking Yankee handyman. "I do a little of this and a little of that," he allows. Last year he made mostly stabiles, predominantly black, which stand out as sharply as docile dinosaurs against the pastel countryside. Marveled the art critic of Paris' prestigious Le Monde: "Is this not America, embodied by an armament so firm and yet so open?" Calder's neighbors also approve of his activities. The Touraine, they recall proudly, was the spawning ground of Rabelais' Gargantua, "the giant...
...words. Because he begins with plan and ends with chaotic inspiration, De Kooning's first drawing retrospective provides illuminating clues to the natural forms that shape his abstractions, to the explicitness with which he builds ambiguity, to how his art is made. Forty-odd drawings in charcoal, pencil, pastel, sumi-ink and Sapolin include classical studies of the '30s, samplings from the "Boudoir" and "Attic" series, sketches for Pink Angel (the painting that reportedly copped $60,000 last year), and 16 new pencil lyrics on his most recurrent theme, women. Through...
...been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies a small, white-painted office, which has on display a pastel of Grandfather Alphonse and the signatures of Meyer's five sons...
Chaves Ravine is not built for fun and games; it is a serious business establishment erected for the purpose of winning baseball games. That is why the Angels have been so uncomfortable there, preferring to play in nightclubs than in Walt O'Malley's pastel colored palace...
...CURAÇAO. West and slightly north is the tidy, pastel-shaded Dutch island of Curaçao, which claims the world's second largest oil refinery. Here the tourists, most of them off cruise ships, bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what...