Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rodman's heartfelt reinterpretation of art history, past and present. In a succession of loosely connected essays he shows that art has always been two-faced. Giotto knew how to make the two faces-form and content-merge into one. So did Rembrandt and every other great painter. But artists who try to get around the problem by sacrificing form to content (like the academicians) or content to form (like the most extreme of the moderns) have always fallen flat between...
...written without a mention of this artist," intoned London's Times last week, "but to omit him is to miss one of the most remarkable figures of the century." The Manchester Guardian agreed: "The most original artist of time a mystic to whom nothing is commonplace." The painter in question was Britain's puckish, eccentric Stanley Spencer, 64, who was being honored last week with a retrospective of 83 oils at London's Tate Gallery. The paintings represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted in the comfortable everyday terms of barnyards, country lanes...
...mutilated soldiers, and the city's frumpish, lard-fleshed whores. Perversely, the rich enjoyed their own caricatures. But when the Nazis took over, they were not so understanding; Grosz's savage anti-Hitler cartoons soon earned him a place at the top of their list of decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration camp by an invitation to teach in Manhattan's Arts Students' League. Though he threw himself into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying...
Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
Back comes the little boy with his mother. The captain hides. "Thank Providence!" the mother declares. "The last of Harry! Let's run home, and I'll make you some lemonade." Next, in startled succession, come the country doctor, a passing tramp, and the resident painter (John Forsythe), who calmly sits down and makes a sketch of the poor stiff. "Next thing you know," the captain splutters indignantly, "they'll be televising the whole thing." He and the painter fellow mull things over, decide to dig the hole for Harry together, and-after tea-they...