Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Eleanor Jewett. "The influence of Marca-Relli, Baziotes, De Kooning, Matta and Picasso ... is so obvious that it hurts." Pointing to this year's out-of-town jury (Manhattan's Painter Hedda Sterne and Sculptor Ibram Lassaw, Carnegie Institute's Fine Arts Director Gordon Bailey Washburn), Critic Jewett snorted, "Originality has been sacrificed in the jury's sustained effort to make this Midwest exhibition as like as possible to a New York modern show...
Britain's New Realism, about as delicate as a cockney costermonger's anecdote, has been rated a "cult of squalidity" by some proper Britons, who think crockery should remain belowstairs. But to date it has already produced a burgeoning handful of new talent. Among Painter Middleditch's contemporaries...
...keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms...
...world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms in U.S. painting today...
...love of Joyce Gary's life is life. Inevitably, bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written...