Word: shadowless
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...Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...
...pitiless glow of the shadowless sunshine...
Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...
...Trio is written so badly. Much of it is clear, direct prose, with emphasis on a photographic clarity of detail. People, the objects in the professor's house and Ray's room, gestures appear with something of the shadowless quality of the paintings of Charles Sheeler. A promising second novel (her first: Young Man with a Horn-TIME, June 6, 1938), it is a good enough discussion of its subject to give readers reason to hope that Author Baker will write better ones...
...other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...