Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answers, we need only turn to any of the exhibition's 17 striking canvases, where tiny scholars and fishing boats cower under misty, mountains. In Yellow Cliffs, three Benday dot cliff faces drop steeply from the painting's upper left corner. At the bottom, Lichtenstein's fluid, black contour describes an undulating boulder. This black outline, originally taken from comic books, contains a small patch of red parallel lines, which were used to denote shading in the half-tone prints of newspapers and magazines...
...this repertoire of three signature stylistic elements, Lichtenstein adds a new technique, sponge-painting, used for the gently sloping tree in Yellow Cliffs. The lack of control inherent in painting with a sponge risks undermining the impossibly clean finish that has long been a hall-mark of Lichtenstein's canvases. Yet on closer look, the organic matter seems just as mechanical, as if it had been painted with a commercial "do it yourself" home decorating...
...stoop enjoying the sun behind a pair of yellow-tinted sun-glasses, Marconi said that he was along for the ride--and enjoying...
Villanova University's bookstore recently banned Cliffs Notes--the slim yellow and black-covered books that condense lengthy literary works into short plot synopses...
David's virulently racist family cannot reconcile themselves to knowing that he was in love with what they call a "yellow whore." Ozzie, disturbed by his son's serious relationship with Zung, spitefully proclaims at one point: "They got diseases...he touched 'em. That's disgusting," and later says that David just wanted to have "little, bitty, Chinky kids." Harriet says, in a disturbingly soft, coddling tone, of Vietnamese people, "Their poor funny little faces...Human faces weren't meant to look like that.... It is our triumph, our whiteness...