Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nostalgic mood yet? If the opening of ABC's Homefront doesn't get you, try CBS's Brooklyn Bridge, a fond look back at growing up in Brooklyn circa 1956. NBC's I'll Fly Away, meanwhile, paints a moodier watercolor of life in a Southern town in the late '50s, just as the civil rights movement was gathering steam. In a medium that is usually more comfortable with the here and now, the timely issue and the hip wisecrack, three of the most ambitious shows of the new season are harking back to the past...
...women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you're sorry. In traditional China, the old widow recalls, "a woman had no right to be angry...
...attributes a desolate aura to New York City. The barren landscape, spotted with ware-houses and train tracks, is disrupted by a bridge cutting diagonally across the picture. Unlike Stella's work, this painting leaves an impression that is neither dynamic nor determined. The muted colors created by applying watercolor over graphite reinforce the dull emptiness of the industrial scenery...
...twinkle she has. More than 28 years after Monroe's death from a drug overdose at 36, the star's legend has not just endured, it has prevailed. The tide of Monroe reminiscences and memorabilia flows on. Two weeks ago, a watercolor self-portrait by Monroe, painted in 1955, was displayed in a collection of artworks by 40 celebrities, assembled as a benefit for the American Cancer Society. A series of photos of Monroe at 19, taken by an Army photographer when the actress was working at an airplane factory in 1945, has been unearthed for an exhibition opening...
...Corbusier: A Marriage of Contours is an arresting exhibit, interesting for its unique context, as well as the quality of the artwork shown. The collection of drawings, in pastel, watercolor and pencil, was assembled by Le Corbusier himself with the goal of representing the breadth and spirit of his pictorial work. This goal is admirably realized and results in an exhibit which is both dynamic and unified. Almost without exception, each individual piece is worthy of close inspection. But Marriage of Contours also displays a temporal progression in the style of this vibrant artist. The exhibit is an education...