fulgid

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Nearly 20 years have gone by since this quiet, theory-shy artist came back from Paris and began turning out his spare, immaculately drafted abstractions amid the fulgid polemics of the New York scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

His color, unlike Salome's rose candy, has a portentously fulgid air�carmine, viridian, black.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the glass wall of his house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy gloom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their arms in order on the ground reclined, Through the brown shade the fulgid weapons shined: Amidst lay Rhesus, stretch'd in sleep profound, And the white steeds behind his chariot bound.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander