Word: swirles
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Occasionally the background verticals swirl to reinforce the contours of a figure or group, as in the "Music Makers" and the "Musicians," a variation on the same theme. Four figures, two of them flute players, appear again in the "Musicians," but his time all of them are women. Blue becomes the major color. The desperation has disappeared; a sense of calm prevails...
...ambassador was visibly agitated. In a swirl of cigarette smoke, he pondered a diplomatic crisis: another ambassador was trying to hire away his cook. How could he thwart this act of piracy without causing an international incident? Baffled, he called his secretary through the intercom. "Get me the Dean," he said. "Tell him it's important...
...beastly work. Off Cape Cod, the Atlantic is a battleground for the warm Gulf Stream and the cold Labrador Current, and the weather veers from dim to foul. Strong subsurface currents swirl at unknown depths below. But the crew of Atlantis was both skilled and lucky; photos taken a half-mile north of Contact Delta showed a string of debris on the bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing...
...great melodramatists of all time, and his melodramas were always superb. His Sardanapalus was inspired by reading a dramatic poem by Lord Byron, and the picture he painted has the impact of an orgy. The figures are so arranged, in an almost circular composition, that they seem to swirl and dance, much like the flames that will soon over take them. This is romanticism at the boiling point-an extraordinary mixture of the exotic and erotic, a masterpiece so filled with the thrill of the sadist that, as he grew older, Delacroix himself became reluctant to even mention...
James Rosenquist, 29, used to paint billboards, where he found that "sometimes things get so close that they disappear, and only the strength of the arabesque is left." In Lines, for instance, the background is a woman's face over which swirl images that might be in her mind. Rosenquist uses space "to bring about mystery," and however billboardlike his technique, the mystery is there...