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...lakes, and mountains, viewed in alternating perspectives, in a variety of sunlight and shadow, during different hours of the day, are his subjects, and these basic elements offer nearly limitless possibilities for orchestration. Controlling the placement of the terms ("taking hills, put them together, cutting out a piece of water,") is the aim of providing visual enjoyment. In order to be able to impart pleasure, the picture must be structured, and structured to be decorative. Mr. Feild's fond sensitivity experiments with the swift change in atmosphere characteristic of the Lake District and the effect this tension between light...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Robin Durant Feild | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

...landscape clearly now, as the child of the voice's memory does: the great country hall set at the peak of a sculptured lawn, with sunlight tinging the entire scene, flecking the grass with gold and making shadows deepen. There are two children holding tight to their caps as they're whirled to the manor door. The smaller, the pained and worried one, is Leo Coston, the narrator. Somehow, the hall is never as big as Leo's first glance suggests...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Betwixt and Between | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight on lonely houses -and he paints the light and the loneliness as well as anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Light and Loneliness | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles of Moscow, she bemoaned not the personal hardships but the fact that "during a week at the front, I had a total of 16 minutes of sunlight." In a B-17 over North Africa with General Jimmy Doolittle's bomber group, she became the first woman to fly on a combat bombing mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Great Achiever | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...deny their child's color, or to say he was growing lighter, or that other people thought he was suntanned and did not recognize him as colored. Sometimes the reality was fully accepted only after the very light child had grown noticeably darker after being exposed to bright sunlight on holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: White Parents, Black Children: Transracial Adoption | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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