Word: paintbrushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as a few strokes of the paintbrush could effectively silence a generation of women reporters, Harvard has its own mechanisms for deciding where women belong and what they...
...industry glammed up as an elegant Deco dream. There is a sanitizing genius to the Disney parks, with their canny nostalgia for an America that may have existed only in the lace-valentine heart of a young Walt Disney. And the tactic works best when applying a cartoonist's paintbrush to a world that is fiction, on- and offscreen. Disney-MGM Studios marries movies to theme parks with the astuteness of Hollywood's hottest studio and the spell of a professional dream weaver. Here the men are strong and the women beautiful; the moral choices are in glorious black...
...performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work worked--being in the spirit of creation and daring to try something new was all that mattered...
Most of all, Lacroix is the man with the magic paintbrush, who revealed a palette and an ability to mix colors that astounded the industry. The red and orange of his salon are the designer's favorite colors. (Had it been possible, he says, he would have brought the sun and the sea right inside.) It is easy to work with navy and white, but taming vibrant blues, pinks and tans, not to mention swirling prints, requires the eye of an artist...
...more complicated than that. It is true that Van Gogh applied the formal system he preferred to the Provencal landscape: the rapid, shifting notation of dots, speckles and slashes in the drawings, with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush, which link back to the decorative line work of Edo Japanese screens and point forward to the whiplash rhythms of art nouveau. But this handwriting was not mechanically stamped on the landscape, as the style marks of mere obsessives tend to be. On the contrary, it was infinitely responsive...