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Word: hispanist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...erally saves Kitaj's work from this failing is his visual flair and range of notation. He has a virtuoso's fist, and can with equal conviction parody the cartoony style of a '40s detective-novel cover or produce the near life-size portrait, The Hispanist, 1977-78, a nervous, delicate laying-on of paint, Klimt-like in its dandified preci on. One always feels that what is there is fully meant to be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last History Painter | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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