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'As grey and repressive as this lost world was, the inchoate colourific eighties is worse.

Then she looked down at the endless colorific ridges below.

One of the most eye-boggling, colorific films on the market is Kodachrome 25.

Even dressed in finery, they could not compete with the colorific cascades of light flung down upon them by the backlit western windows.

Composed of simple abstract shapes in symmetrical formations and clusters, his canvases are neat and pleasantly colorific.

This very uneven show boasts one splashy painting, the large and lovely "Landscape With a Blue Bird" (1942) that shows Bonnard at his colorific best.

But its highlights are a group of colorific acrylics from the mid-1950's, like "Abstraction," a gestural painting of black and white lines and shapes that dance on a ground of brilliantly hued planes.

Margaret Thatcher Projects 529 West 20th Street Chelsea Through May 26 Shimmering wall works of steel mesh backed by fluorescent Plexiglas seduce the eye in this colorific show.

The most colorific work of this last group is "Violet Tones," 1934, whose dark but sharply outlined forms of a tree, a telephone pole and architectural and other structures appear against a sunset sky unexpectedly aglow with lavender and sharp streaks of blue.

Of the 11 Glackens views of the park here - too many, in my opinion - one of the most appealing is "Washington Square Park," a colorific scene of immigrant children playing before the arch and the Row as a packed double-decker sightseeing bus in bright green ambles past them.

His wonderfully ornate, colorific abstractions, incorporating beads, thick impasto, pigmented silicone and other relief elements, are inflected by a blobby spill of silvery urethane that breaks through a wall in the gallery to cascade onto the floor, a sardonic attempt to mess up the pristine, white box of the gallery's space.