Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...
...objective art - anyone can try his hand at it. It is too bad that we can not legislate on the arts and make it an offense for anyone but an established writer or painter to play with the experimental forms; as it is, we have chimpanzees riding tricycles over paint-smeared canvasses, and, alas, we have Ellis Andrews writing off-Broadway plays for the Cohasset Music Circus. The results are comparable in quality...
...year contract. Ceezee did not bowl over Hollywood. After nine months of coaching and study, but no screen credits, she went back to Boston. But Ceezee was not to be completely without an audience. On a trip to Mexico in 1945, she met Diego Rivera, who immediately wanted to paint her-in the nude. Ceezee didn't wince, and when the painting was later hung in Giro's Bar in the Hotel Reforma, she didn't think it was anything to get excited about...
...decorated only with blocks, which could be to suggest new settings a minimum of time and effort. the Loeb stage is too deep this method, Armistead feels. he had to "thearicalize" the design, introducing a patters of and backdrops, all of which to be designed, built and paint--a difficult chore though one plenty of room for innovation...
...looking at things was always his own. He did not paint mountains, but their inner anatomy; he could see demons in the cheeriest of scenes, could find menace lurking inside the most ordinary object. His world was like the nursery of an overimaginative child to whom every fleeting shadow on the wall is a dragon or a ghost...