Word: coloristic
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...prizes a few years ago, Gilles was one of the most chronically unsuccessful painters of his generation -and also one of the most enigmatic. He had been a favorite pupil of Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus, yet he showed no trace of Feininger's misty geometry. As a colorist, Gilles was a descendant of the expressionists; he also borrowed from Klee, Miró, Munch, and even Picasso...
...gifts were indeed impressive--he was a fine caricaturist (see his amusing sketch of Mendelssohn), his mastery of line at times equals Ingres' and his formal arrangements recall the brilliance of Toulouse-Lautrec. Though he was a clumsy landscapist, incompetent in his handling of perspective and an uninventive colorist, he had the good sense to play down these weaknesses and concentrated instead on the flat black and white sketches of people in urbane surroundings for which he is so famous...
...died, Salemme had shaped to near perfection a wholly personal idiom. His retrospective show, which originated at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and will move to Manhattan's Whitney Museum later this month, proved Salemme to have been sad and chill, yet magical, and a colorist of weird subtlety...
Munakata does not always maintain the virtuoso standards of this religious series. Lapses occur when he adds colored ink to the black and white woodcut. Munakata, it seems, is not in any way as gifted a colorist as he is a draftsman. His heavy, almost garish, coloring emphasizes how far he has turned from the nice distinctions of tone and shade in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese prints. This very simple style, more Western than Oriental, mainly produces naive results; the childish, pseudo-folk art atmosphere of Stones in Water and Hawk Woman is most disturbing. However, the best color...
Died. Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, 67, slight, white-bearded yachtsman, water-colorist and world-renowned architectural historian, who taught for 38 years (1916-54) at Columbia University, wrote prolifically, edited (1952) the scholarly, encyclopedic Forms and Functions of Twen tieth-Century Architecture, capped his career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...