Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saul Baizerman, Eugenie Baizerman was unrecognized during her lifetime; when she died in 1949, not one of her works had been sold. Exhibitions since then reveal a painter who persistently stuck to the pursuit of color. In 35 oils, watercolors and drawings ranging from 1927 to 1949. her swirling brush paints up an explosion of autumn hues infused with light that magically illumines human figures. Through...
...cleaned it up. He danced around, and even on top of, his work. In later years, he called his canvases "the arena," a flatland where he encountered himself in a battle between mind and hand, He improvised like a jazz musician, scattering paint off the tip of an overloaded brush in the whiplash rhythm of his choreography. Sometimes he added sand and broken glass for texture. "It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess," he said in 1947. "Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give-and-take...
LOVIS CORINTH-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Sixty self-portraits by the late-blooming German impressionist (1858-1925) offer an authentic study in character. Paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, ranging from the belabored early works of the artist's 20s to the violent chiaroscuro, powerful brush stroke and emotional fervor of his later years. Through...
...Young Democrats who sponsored Wallace and the students who west and applauded him felt a moral commitment to the Negro's cause, they would not find it necessary to seek enlightenment from a racist. Nor would they brush aside so lightly the dangers Wallace and his followers represent to the very survival of democracy in America. Indeed, judging by the audience response reported in the press, students seem to lack even as intellectual commitment; they do not appear to know the most elementary facts about conditions in Alabama or the constitutional basts for civil rights...
...Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting. Over these loose, unframed scraps, he lays on slick sizing so that subsequent brushstrokes in oil tempera seem to float above the surface. He paints where the bristles of his soft, often home-made brushes lead him. He says he is "listening to the brush-I want my colors to breathe, not to cover...