Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Orlando's residential subdivisions have the same dreamed-in feel: strung along narrow county roads, many are pastel agglomerations of arbitrary architecture, all behind secure walls. "When you drive around Orlando," says John Rothchild, author of Up for Grabs, a cultural anthropology of Florida, "it's not clear where Disney World begins and ends...
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. The Jesus story retold in pop pastel colors -- except that Edward, poor gentle creature, nearly gets crucified at Christmastime. Tim Burton (Batman) directs the season's funniest, bittersweetest film...
...Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours is an arresting exhibit, interesting for its unique context, as well as the quality of the artwork shown. The collection of drawings, in pastel, watercolor and pencil, was assembled by Le Corbusier himself with the goal of representing the breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education...
South Central Los Angeles looks a lot like the rest of the city -- smog- filtered sunlight, palm trees, pastel-colored stucco apartments. It doesn't look like a ghetto. The gang writing on cement walls, criminal samizdat that cops read for news of a planned attack with the expert alacrity of CIA cryptologists, is fastidiously printed; it bears little resemblance to the loopy graffiti of New York City...
...pieces in this exhibition are skillfully done, or even originally conceived. "Two Dogs," by Nicholas Dunbar is a sloppy rendition of a somewhat dull concept. Pastel, dripped paint surrounds a dog, presented as an angel on the first canvas. On the second canvas is another dog, represented as the Devil, as not so subtly suggested by his red horns and tail...