Word: shimmering
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...rain-slicked streets. You see the morning in as everything wears off. Time drags. Until you hear music that sounds the way a drifting parachute looks. And it's even better than those records of waves and bird cries at soothing frazzled, fidgety sleepless nerves. The notes echo, ripple, shimmer and flow. The party debris remains. But you're gone: finding out who's playing jazz on this rock'n'rollers floor...
Rembrandts in the collection), beginning to array his whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...
...sunset. Because of Luanda's location on a point of land, with an island sheltering the bay, you see sunrises over the bay and sunsets over the ocean. And they're always beautiful. At sunrise on the ship's last morning in Luanda, the water in the bay shimmered like smooth aluminum foil watercolored pink and orange. But the source of the shimmer was soon painfully evident: an oil film, produced by the anchored ships, spread over the entire...
...tuned ribbons of color, suffer in reproduction: full scale-up to 8 ft. wide-is needed for their effect, which is to deny one's point of focus. You cannot stare at any one point on a Riley for long. It slides away and is lost in the shimmer. A painting like Shih-Li, 1975, sets up an undulation of space that one feels as a physical pressure. The illusion is so strong that no act of will...
...they are not merely an ocular gymnasium. There is a lyrical side to Ri ley's work. The color, in particular, is taxingly subtle. It does not woo the eye, but it does present an unexpectedly wide range of situations, from a slow, impalpable, pearly shimmer of greens and grays to the sharp, exhilarating flicker and reversal of green against red against blue in such paintings as Paean...