Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first group of mature works, the so-called "veils" and "florals," date from 1954 through 1960. The overlapping washes of transluscent Magna (acrylic) colors on the unsized, white canvas produce a veil-like form whose colors, although rich and sensuous, seem to mystically dematerialize like shifting, almost gaseous, vapors into the texture of the canvas. One wash of color is applied over another, but the transparency allows all the layers to come forward simultaneously. The visual effect is breathtakingly beautiful and bewildering at the same time. As the viewer becomes involved with a specific passage, he feels that...
Nevertheless, Louis derw on contremporary painting for his vocabulary, if not his inspiration. His veil-like clouds of color come from Rothko, and the active Oscillation of spatial structure has precedence in Rothko and in "optical" art as early as Albers...
...China has often hidden the recurring tensions between central government and regions, between Emperor and officialdom or ambitious war lords-and, above all, the sometimes intolerable inner tensions of trying to maintain harmony. As China Scholar Etienne Balazs put it: "The smiling landscape is found to be a veil which, when torn asunder, reveals a craggy vista of precipices and extinct volcanoes, reminiscent of the visions with which most Chinese landscape painters were obsessed...
...First prize: Jules Olitski. 44, for his lightly brushed, veil-like Pink Alert. >Second prize: Paul Jenkins, 44, for a cloudlike abstraction, Astral Signal. > Third prize: John McLaughlin, 68, California abstractionist, for No. 14. >Fourth prize: Kenneth Noland, 42, for a hard-edged, blue-banded Pause...
...exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research -- and that through its Honorray Associates program, it will encourage "political and ceremonial events" instead of genuine educational debate. The Institute has yet to define its goals and remains in the sacred veil of "experimentation," but the critics are anxious and feel that it must justify itself in academic terms before it receives the blessing of the community.SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET Professor of Government...