Word: colorist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICOLAS DE STAËL-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th St. Twenty-six paintings, some never shown before, by the French colorist who troweled slabs of paint onto canvas to create a glowing masonry. Through...
...some of the handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through the whole siege in two hours and 30 minutes comes out feeling lucky...
...prizes a few years ago, Gilles was one of the most chronically unsuccessful painters of his generation -and also one of the most enigmatic. He had been a favorite pupil of Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus, yet he showed no trace of Feininger's misty geometry. As a colorist, Gilles was a descendant of the expressionists; he also borrowed from Klee, Miró, Munch, and even Picasso...