Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong weather is almost a tradition for Winter Olympics. At St. Moritz, in 1928, blinding snowstorms followed by unseasonable warmth almost wrecked the games; Lake Placid in 1932 all but melted in midwinter thaw; at Oslo, 20 years later, warm weather nearly wiped out competition...
...steers by the stars. An amazing little instrument picks out a succession of stars, even in daytime, and navigates by them like a ship at sea. Unlike the ICBM, the Navaho can be instructed to zigzag and feint. When the Navaho nears its target, it can feel for the warmth of a darkened city...
Three of the works in this exhibition depart from the Neo-Plastic tendency for a foray into Neo-Impressionism. A series of sunsets are in the pointillist style. The illusion of light and warmth produced by the use of light and color is spoiled by a clinical and sterile application of paint...
...foppish, witty, dwarf-legged chronicler of Montmartre and his painter friends Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. There, done with quick, sure strokes, is the record not only of what Toulouse-Lautrec saw as he grappled with the living instant, but how he saw it, set down with a warmth and power that no camera eye can match. Nowhere is this more evident than in his pastel portrait of Van Gogh, sketched at a café table...
...John Pope handles with some subtlety the ambivalent emotions of a young man whose envy of a married roomate's security alternates with his pity of the trapped spouse. Pope manages to give his story a pervading atmosphere of pregnancy, domesticity, and security. Unfortunately, however, this profusion of warmth carries over a little too much into the narrator's thoughts--he, in short, becomes rather gooey. One cannot criticize Pope for not conforming in an age of understatement, but it seems that his story might have been more effective if, especially in the first part, he had toned down...