Word: colorist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young artist persisted. He went to London to study the sunset Turners, which expanded his palette. He encountered Japanese prints, which banished shadows and freed him from tunnel-vision perspective. He tinkered with impressionism, dabbled in pointillism, and became the leading colorist of fauvism. Eventually, he discovered Matissism...
...skillful rococo colorist named Joseph Blackburn arrived from England. He immediately became an established painter in Boston and his work had a profound influence on Copley's portraiture. Blackburn's colors were light and gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most...
Bouncier than Bach. That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay. Although he rejected the association, Kupka churned out whorls of saturated color, dazzling fingerprints of the spectrum. With his paintpots, he set cubism on fire...
CLEVE GRAY-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A sensitive colorist, Gray smears his canvases with dark primaries and brilliant pastels, composing his abstractions with a sure feel for tonal balance and direction in space. Best: Vernal, a large dynamic treatment of vertical blues against white. Through...
Middens of Mythology. "He didn't have a logical mind," said Thomas Hart Benton, who was Pollock's teacher at Manhattan's Art Students League from 1929 to 1931, "but he was a very fine colorist." Perhaps he learned his color and texture from the land, when, he worked as a surveyor's helper; in any case, he learned drawing from anatomy up. He borrowed Benton's feel for the swirly sensuousness of oils, turned to the writhing images of the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco, loved the sinuous drapery of baroque...