Word: pinkish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later. "A firm handshake, the Nazi salute, a smile. The personality of Germany's dictator was not hypnotic. Physical appearance: less attractive than from a distance. Hair: dark brown, fine in texture, inclined to rustiness in front, slightly graying on the crown. Eyes: bright blue. Skin: coarse with a pinkish tinge. Mustache: slightly shot with gray. Teeth: bottom row gold-plated, which leads to the hunch that they are false. Stature: shorter than expected. Uniform: brown boots and breeches, simple brown shirt, adorned only by the Iron Cross and Nazi brassard. Smile: humorless. Salute: stylized by throwing the hand back...
Kossoff is, above all, a painter obsessed with oily stuff. His paint is thick without being rhetorical. The surface develops by addition, sometimes over months, and contains an extraordinary range of nuances both in color and in texture: tremulous depths of pinkish-gray held within the sallow planes of a face, innumerable gradations of Venetian red and salmon pink in the body of a nude, rescued from mere allusiveness by the vehement drawing of shadow that gives Kossoff's work its tonal framework. Its solidity is relieved, almost involuntarily, by the whipping of skeins of pigment fallen directly from...
...ceramic bowl, spouting 18-inch straws, arrived. We peered at the pinkish liquid and wondered at its mysteries...
...museum is a calm and elegant presence on 53rd Street. Fox and Fowle, the New York City architectural firm, has created an airy space within Architect Kevin Roche's Hutton tower. Although the museum's facade is faced with the same pinkish granite as the tower, it is free of Roche's flamboyant touches -- mansard roof and lobby fit for the enthronement of pharaohs...
Micaela Rantoul, for example, made enormous prints (39" X 39") from negatives shot with an old, children's camera. The enlargements were grainy and soft-focused. By rushing the prints through the fixing process, she added a soft pinkish tint. The result is an extraordinary use of photographic techniques to produce images that no longer resemble photographs...