Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin to see an emotion building up in my mind before I ever put it down on the panel. Sometimes when there is great tension, or lots taking place, I may get an idea or an emotion, and it hits me strong. It can be a tree, or the tone of a shadow of clouds on the ground, or light on the side of a hill, or light on a white surface. Sometimes I do my best work after the models have gone away, purely from memory. And that's what makes me laugh when critics say I'm photographic...
...Iowa. But no matter what his topic, his speech is laced with religious allusions; he has a preacher's habit of stretching out words (free-dom, A-mer-i-ca) for emphasis. Though he smiles brightly and often, even when the smile is out of sync with the tone of his words, he taps what he describes as "a rage and frustration building up in - certain quarters of this country." As with Jackson, there is still an angry edge to some of Robertson's remarks. He not only inveighs against the Supreme Court ("this unassailable oligarchy (that) would rule...
...data tends to a more positive interpretation: "a vague suggestion that some pet-owners, for reasons which are unclear, may have a greater desire for company and friendship and because of this use their pets to augment what they already derive from the companionship of humans." Despite this careful tone, In the Company of Animals is a work of cross-cultural panache. Serpell writes passionately and well about a subject that seems to have fallen between the cracks of specializations. His overview is sweeping and provocative. To wit: in traditional Western thought, God created humans in his own image...
...because they are easy to read. As Art Historian Judith Goldman points out in her recent book on Rosenquist, most of his images are not just culled, collage-wise, from advertising; they are shards of personal experience, of memories scaled up and colloquially scrambled. Nevertheless there was a certain tone of image that Rosenquist sought. He did not want to paint old things that provoked nostalgia. What he liked, as he put it, were images "common enough to pass without notice." Hence the '50s-ish look of his paintings from the '60s, which, ironically, seem more nostalgic now than they...
...campaign has, perhaps inevitably, turned harsh. Yet when Bond and Lewis, now both 46, discuss the old days, a wistful tone creeps into their voices. Lewis recalls the time they brought some donated textbooks to Birmingham and hatched a plan, which involved pretending to be working for a white volunteer who was with them, in case they got stopped by state troopers. And the time he was host at a birthday party for Bond's 16-year-old daughter. And the times he had to wake Bond up in the morning. "We used to call him God's greatest sleeper...