Word: ri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...
Hundreds of thousands of tiny feathers from forest birds, trapped with bird lime and nets, went into the making of a cloak, and they were painstakingly tied to a mesh base to form broad, brilliant patterns. Not until the 1950s, with Hen ri Matisse's chasubles for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, would a ceremonial garment approach the purity and bold ness of design of the 19th century chiefs cloak named for Kekaulike-nui. Such objects would form a climax to any ethnographical show. One can only regret that in this case they...