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...holiday mood, Picasso swept his new quarters free of archaic coins and archeological treasures, painted the walls bright green to soften the Riviera sunlight, locked himself in with an armload of paints and brushes, and started to work. For eight hours a day, for almost four months, he worked...
...What sunlight labyrinth of pain He may not enter and endure...
...decision to restore the painting was . . . greatly influenced when, during the war years, the great painting had to be unrolled in the daylight and, startlingly, in the merciless sunlight, the muddy-looking, pseudo-mystic brown-black crepe suddenly appeared to be shadow...
...founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...
This difference allows astronomers to photograph the brighter parts of the sun's atmosphere with a "spectroheliograph," a prism spectroscope which casts sunlight of only one color on a photographic plate. The light from the solar atmosphere, glowing in that color, shows in the picture. Most of the dazzling light from the surface, being of other colors, is excluded by the spectroscope...