Word: pastel
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...aloud “Danny, the Champion of the World,” “Tarzan,” and the “Lord of the Rings.” During a reading of “The Two Towers,” we sketched Gandalf with pastel pencils and dozed behind the couch. Although I didn’t always listen, his treasured classics exposed me to manliness worthy of respect...
Just a few minutes later, amidst confused tourists and unsuspecting students, a round of flash-dance musical chairs broke out. For 15 minutes, music blared and participants danced and fought each other for a seat in one of the pastel-colored yard chairs in front of Grays...
While Wanders concedes his experience of Philadelphia is minimal, he's no stranger to the U.S. The pastel-colored Thor restaurant in New York City's Rivington hotel, for instance, was Wanders' first significant Stateside commission back in 2004. Last year, Wanders' work was unveiled at Miami's Mondrian hotel - his first major top-to-bottom hotel project, complete with an instantly iconic black lacquer staircase at the reception. "Next we have new hotels in Amsterdam and Hong Kong and an office building in Cairo," Wanders enthuses. "Along with product- and lighting-design projects in Italy." Dealing in daydreams requires...
...Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that...