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...Colors originally referred to things--red to blood, violet to the flower, black to ink," said Skinner, adding that original references to objects were based first on color and then on a noticed internal sensation...
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...fact, it had not entirely left; browns, vermilions and rust-reds are buried under the black girders of the '50s. Contrary to received opinion, Kline had a strong instinct for color, and by 1961 it was at full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave out. Thus what Kline might have done with color--like what Pollock would have produced in the return to figuration he had begun just before...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years as a fashion doyen coined a neat line about Indian dress ("Pink...
...army of black-clad troops, carrying paintings of identical size; it was a parody of the military metaphor of the avant-garde. Rousseau wanted honors, like his heroes. When the French government sent him a decoration by mistake he would not send it back, and obstinately wore its violet rosette for the rest of his life. It was the Palmes Academiques--a serendipitous fluke, in view of his obsession with exotic scenes of distant jungles...