Word: alcalayã
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...have to hold a brush,” he says. “It’s part of my daily routine.” Tranchin and Moore understood this view of art and its connection to Alcalay??s past, which emerges in their interviews with the painter. “All the various moments of his life suddenly become milestones,” Moore said. “That’s how the structure of the film evolved...
After this encounter, Alcalay says in the film, “I realized that art was spirituality, not technique.” From then on Alcalay??s artistic awareness was entwined with the consciousness of being alive. When he was finally released from the concentration camp, the sun struck him “like a ton” and he fainted...
...Alcalay??s own vision gave the water in his 1949 work “By the Shores of Ostia,” its particular murkiness and the houses their faded oranges and purples, evocative of sunset. He infused his later 1984 work “Study for Festivities” with a sense of pure human joy, though the painting does not contain a single human figure. When Alcalay finally came to grips with himself as a landscape painter, he saw himself in his early years as “describing the landscape...
Blindness has also become a milestone. The light that reaches Alcalay??s eyes has diminished by as much as 50 percent. For years, he has had trouble distinguishing between blue and green. “I was teaching the other colors,” he says...
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