Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie Laurencin does not paint self-portraits any more. "At my age," she says, shaking her white head, "that is finished now." She lives alone, and except for an occasional spin around Paris in a bus, she seldom goes out. But the mothers with daughters in tow still come to...
The idea of universality pushes out most strongly in Cox's abstractions. He paints what he calls "basics," e.g., canvases combining such forms as rocks and eggs, which offer contrast in texture. ("Eggs," he says, "have a softness and smoothness and at the same time a nervous feeling.") He...
If anything, Georges Braque seemed to grow younger with years. Ranging the gallery walls were 32 paintings as fresh and varied as those of any young hopeful struggling to find a "style." There were clear Normandy seascapes, bright Fauvist landscapes, familiar cubist figures, tight abstractions, and soft, flowing still lifes...
To prove the point, Marcus and a group of fellow Texans sifted through the work of scores of artists, settled on samples from 53 of them for a show in Manhattan last week. The 53 were as varied as Texas itself. If there was any pattern, it was an apparent...
Last week an ex-conservative named Philip Guston gave an answer of sorts. Painter Guston's reputation is solidly based on complex still lifes and figure paintings. His tame, placid portrait of a plump-armed girl won top honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years...