Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow American, Morgan Russell, he worked out basic principles of an abstract style, based on scientific color theories, which he called "Synchromy." The results' first shown in 1913, were curving, intersecting volumes of light, which today take their place on the artistic map, alongside the "Orphism" of French Painter Robert Delaunay and Italian futurist studies of forms in motion, as feeder streams into the main current of 20th century...
...from the Farm. Painter Cloar's own home was the family farm in Arkansas. The sixth child of seven, young Cloar had a farm boy's hard upbringing, went to school in nearby Earle, Ark. (pop. 2,036). On his own, Cloar began drawing before he could write. At 18 he left his brothers on the farm and set off for college in Memphis, mainly to study...
...PAINTER Paul Gauguin set in motion one of the main art trends of the 20th century when he decided that "the Greek [style] is the great error, beautiful though it is," and plunged off to Tahiti to capture the expressive power of primitive art. In the hands of such moderns as Painters Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Sculptors Brancusi, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, this source of inspiration has not only produced new art; it has also caused primitive art itself to be reassessed. The rise of primitive works from artifact to art is currently being demonstrated by the first showing...
Abstract expressionism does not mean Easy Street to the artist, but neither does it mean martyrdom, unless the martyrdom is of the sort that Painter Mark Rothko bemoans. Rothko for a while was one of a group who carried privacy to the extreme of refusing to let their paintings be seen; ' even now he considers it "a risky act" to send a painting "out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who would extend their affliction universally...
...complete contrast to this light-hearted parody was Hindemith's thorny Mathis der Maler, presented over the weekend in English by the B.U. Opera School. The costumes, lights, and staging were equal to and often above professional standards. The opera deals with Mathias Grunwald, the great 16th century painter and the place of the artist, or indeed of any man, in the world...