As an artist I LOVE MacDonald's declared use of color. ..
simply identification. I am reminded about a film where
Modigliani was working on one of his tall, rangy, big-footed
sculptures. Artists and historians had written for years
about the symbolism of the exaggeratedly large feet. Until,
on the film, Modigliani is sculpting away and talking: "Now
the feet. The GD feet. I've never known what to do with the
GD feet!!
Art is usually so simple. Critics make up most of the
symbolic bs.
Cheers,
PatZ
> Everybody knows but me. At least that is how it
seems. What is the role
of
> the colors in the John MacDonald titles? I'm usually
a quick study but
> countless novels later, I cannot see a pattern.
Without a clue!
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