Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artist Koerner painted Father Hesburgh with a Giotto madonna, an atomic equation and a chemical formula to "represent the changeless and the changing-both in Hesburgh's domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
What has happened, says Getlein, is that the variations possible to abstraction are running out. The oldtimers of abstraction are only repeating themselves, and their disciples will do the same. The genuinely novel paintings at the Whitney were paintings that show at least a hint of image-some sand dunes by Karl Knaths ("Naturally, we all knew about dunes anyway, but we didn't know about these dunes"), a Pietà by Abraham Rattner "that compares with the last sculptures on that theme by Michelangelo." a standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull...
...Velde never could afford a model. So he painted the w?omen who paraded through his mind, even as his strength ebbed away from slow starvation. During World War II, living in Paris, he felt so weak that he could not hold a brush, and did not paint at all. "I lived like a phantom." he says. "I wasn't broken, though. I went on living in the work I had done earlier." He searched for handouts and scoured the gutters for cigarette butts. After the war. with the help of new patrons ("a few people for whom...
Such an interpretation seems eminently plausible. The Fine Arts Department's own opinion of studio courses is that they are valuable only when they set out to teach the principles and techniques of painting; and the department takes a much dimmer view of studio courses when they attempt to make painters--professional or Sunday--of the students. Unfortunately, as one member of the department has put it, it is "hard to keep these two motives separate"--a student often simply must learn to paint in order to understand the techniques he is investigating...
...mind, certain it is that at least 31 out of the 35 under-graduates in his two courses are not Fine Arts concentrators, and that many of them are taking a course with Feininger for no other reason than that, as one student has expressed it, "I want to paint...