Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At 64, he is a brawny, barrel-shaped man who is up at dawn each morning for a full day of puttering and painting at his thick-beamed home in Sag Harbor, L.I. He may mend a broken piece of furniture or glue together some shattered crockery, but his mind...
The Sutherland tapestry-suffering perhaps from the great expectations built up over the years-is less obviously impressive. Christ in Majesty-presented in a billowing, almost feminine robe-seems lacking in majesty. But the tapestry is rich in arresting still lifes, and impressive as a modern success in a medieval...
Look well, and you'll see a curious thing about the pitcures in the Adams House Photography Festival--practically every entrant including most of the judges, was petrified by the possibility that he might take a picture exposing a live, human emotion. With few exceptions, the entries consist of still...
Still lifes and portraits represent "pieces of kosmos that we have wrenched apart and carried off with us," Vercors stated. In the next stage of art, man makes freer use of his memory, arranging the facts of nature in his own order to make them say what he wants.
The Picasso's Picassos done in the '30s are mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso'...