Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"What inspired me most in the area of art and culture in America was jazz music," Stuart Davis once said. It was hot jazz, city jazz, that Davis painted, right up until his death at the age of 69 last week. He was rooted in the American soil, but that...
To see his paintings is to hear them. They screech and honk with the aggressive dissonance of city traffic. They have the staccato beat of a pneumatic drill. The strident reds, blues, and yellows blare with neon. And the stray words that seem squiggled from a toothpaste tube onto his...
What first fired his imagination was the famed Armory Show of 1913. Then and there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan...
Unlike some pop artists, Davis was a meticulous craftsman who worked the hard way with paint out of the tube and small brushes. The jazz improvisations in his pictures are in the mood, never in the planning and execution. He took a razzle-dazzle man-made world of cities, honky...
One weekend, while Tognazzi is en route to his son's boarding school, lissome Catherine Spaak flags down his car. He gives her and her friends gas for their jalopy, joins them at a beach house where they natter about Sammy Davis Jr., improvise hymns to Brigitte Bardot, and...