Word: lifesize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The least of his new pictures seemed to radiate light. There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life." Marchand hates the term nature morte, never uses it. "Nature," he says, "is never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot...
But a few of the pictures in last week's show were not in the least moving, and they were the ones that proved how cold, competent and clear-eyed a painter Stuempfig is when he chooses not to be romantic. Dark, highly polished still lifes of vegetables on...
Geometry & Assurance. For delicate tastes there were the smaller, cooler and more careful paintings of France's top second-rankers, including Pierre Tal-Coat (44), Andre Marchand (42), Francis Tailleux (36) and Edouard Pignon (44), who unabashedly follow Picasso's and Matisse's lead and do it...
In 1931 two artists named Maurer had shows in Manhattan. One was a 99-year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed...
But two qualities saved Villon's new work from being classed as "second-period cubism," i.e., art that derives from the early days of Braque and Picasso but dilutes their experiments into decorative and fairly understandable patterns-something for the living room. The first quality was the clear cold...