Word: brushings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at what he most wanted to do-paint. But when Pasche was in his 20s, an Italian artist visiting his home in Geneva patiently taught him to hold a brush between his agile first and second toes, gave him aid in painting techniques...
Alongside Pasche sat Corry Riet, 31, of Zaandam, The Netherlands, who was paralyzed by polio at the age of five. When it became clear that she would never regain the use of her arms, Corry Riet learned to hold a brush with her teeth, took lessons from a landscapist. She makes a comfortable income from her paintings, calendars and greeting cards...
...called simply El Greco (The Greek). He said he was born in Crete, boasted that he had been a student of Titian and, as one Toledo Spaniard recorded, "he let it be understood that nothing in the world was superior to his art." Certainly the stranger had at his brush tip not only Titian's designs but also all the secrets of Tintoretto's theatrical fireworks and Correggio's dramatic lighting as well. Soon even the proud churches of Toledo were vying for his works. In lordly fashion, The Greek moved into the royal suite...
...exile, Jawlensky retreated further into himself, began painting the series of abstract mood poems that show his color sense at its peak. After the war he returned to Germany, only to have the Nazis in 1939 declare his art "degenerate." Hopelessly crippled by arthritis, only able to hold his brush painfully with both hands and paint with shoulder movements, Jawlensky devoted his last years to small, dully glowing, abstract heads of Christ. His final works before his death in 1941 were basically meditations. Said he: "Great art can only be created with religious feeling. Art is longing...
...Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite), was a clear handling of geometric masses that came within a brush stroke of anticipating the discoveries made years later by Cézanne...