Word: chiaroscuro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted practically everyone he considered worth knowing, and he loves to talk about it. Having finally arrived at what he lightly calls the "Halfway House" of life, John thought it was time to get his memories in print. Next week his book will be on sale in U.S. shops. Chiaroscuro: Fragments of Autobiography (Pellegrini & Cudahy: $5) is indeed one of the most fragmentary autobiographies ever written. But the fragments he has gathered up sometimes turn out to be semiprecious nuggets...
...roster of famous subjects grew, e.g., Japan's Prince (later Emperor) Hirohito-"an inconspicuous young man attired in a navy blue suit"-Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats. His fees also grew, to ?1,000 and up. The "series of scenes and adventures" practically fill Chiaroscuro, but here & there, John pauses to point and comment. Samples...
...been lost, and II Sodoma's copy was long mistaken for the original. He could draw, when he cared to, with serene accuracy; he knew how to round out shapes by blurring their contours (sfumato), and how to steep his fingers in rippling depths of light and shadow (chiaroscuro...