Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green Hair. The pure Matisse emerged at Paris' Autumn Salon of 1905. His works were hung in a room apart, with those of some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green...
...Wild Blue Needs Better Signals THE U.S. is rapidly running out of air space. To the groundling, the skies may seem unlimited, but the traffic problem in the nation's air lanes is almost as bad as on the highways. On some days, the four New York City airports handle 2,300 take-offs and landings-a round-the-clock average of one every 39 seconds-in a space 60 air miles wide and 40 air miles long...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the West was really wild (TIME...
...collage (pasting oddly assorted things together to make a picture). He portrayed his grandmother by superimposing a bit of her needlepoint, a page from her Bible and some pressed flowers, upon old shingles. To depict willow trees in the rain he mounted twigs, flecked with gelatine, on glass. Wild and precise at once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen with the utmost sympathy, some of his best works...
Married. Guy Madison (real name: Robert Moseley), 32, onetime dimpled Hollywood juvenile (Since You Went Away) and current hero of the bubble-gum set as TV's Wild Bill Hickok; and Sheilah Connolly, 24, TV actress; each for the second time (his first: Actress Gail Russell; hers: Producer Harry Danziger); in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...