Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small rooms and the exhibition is all over two floors." As for the selection of paintings, he admitted a preference for Andrew Wyeth's study of an elderly lady, but refused to quarrel with the jury.* "I have nothing to say about them because I am not an artist . . . I am not now going to be any censor...
Last week museum officials announced that cleaning had uncovered another hint that peasant painter and noble model were indeed lovers. There was a second word, preceding Goya, that had been covered over with paint long ago-presumably by the artist himself. That word is "Solo," Spanish for only...
...become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger's love for the U.S. is not blind: in the last decade, the French priest, author (One Sky to Share), artist and Resistance hero, has traveled all over the U.S. Inevitably, some of what he has to say has been said before, but rarely has it been said more forcefully or feelingly...
...Portrait. There is more of an attempt to show structural and coloristic harmony, but the colors tend to get rather high in range and the structure collapses in places. The last Soutine is an excellent Portrait of a Lady in which the palette and brush are subtly used, the artist scaling his colors (somberly brilliant blacks, blues and oranges) to fit the mood of despair and keeping distortion to its minimal needs for significant expression (cf. the hands and head...
...brilliance with a well-balanced, elegantly proportioned, and grandly spaced installation--which looks good from any spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth, and the curious (and heavily painted) medallion all contribute to this great self-portrait's emotional intensity. My next favorite is Degas' La Chanteuse au Gant, a painting...