Word: painter
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...little (pop. 12,600) Italian town of Borgo San Sepolcro, lying in the fertile valley of the upper Tiber, has a proud boast: one of its townsmen was the great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises...
Ruth Asawa, 28, is a San Francisco housewife and mother of three. She was born and raised in California, studied under Abstract Painter Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. Her show consists of big, wholly abstract sculptures, made of woven wire and suspended from the ceiling. If Noguchi's ceramics demonstrate a certain grinning bounciness in the Japanese heritage, Asawa's wire constructions show the opposite side: austerity and calm. In their openness, delicacy and symmetry they somewhat resemble blossoms, odorless, colorless, outsize, yet refreshing to contemplate...
Married. Malvin Marr Albright, 57, controversial Chicago sculptor and painter, of richly colored, meticulously detailed still lifes and portrait studies (Victoria, Girl in Red), son of aged painter Adam Emory Albright, twin brother of painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright; and Mrs. Cornelia Fairbanks Ericourt, 42, granddaughter of Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice president of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09); he for the first time, she for the third; in Old Saybrook, Conn...
...When Painter Sutherland went to Chartwell last August for the first sitting, the Prime Minister asked: "Are you going to paint me as a tiger or cherub?" Watching the old man take his seat on a large dais, Sutherland made up his mind. "He took up a position as a tiger. The lip was out. The head was challenging. The eyes were looking direct." Then and there, he made his choice between Churchill the benign and humorous and Churchill the uncompromising. "It seemed to me essential," Sutherland explained, "that Churchill should be portrayed with a certain degree of intransigence-with...
...book is the work of an old (73) man who has, whatever his weaknesses as a painter, a virtuosity in line drawing unsurpassed in the whole history of art. The legion of shapes he brings to life are not always pleasing, but invariably turn out to be convincing...