Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali announced in Nice that he is about to go into a new motion picture venture. To be produced by him next year: a movie starring Italy's earthy Anna Magnani, in which she will play a woman in love with a wheelbarrow. "The name of the film will be The Wheelbarrow of Flesh" explained Dali, "and she will find in that object all the qualities and charms of a human being . . . it's terrific...
...picture in 1609, he was 32 and had just returned to Antwerp after a nine-year stay in Italy. The almost theatrical lighting recalls Caravaggio (one of Rubens' chief enthusiasms), and the whole canvas has a studied Italianate air. It cannot match the healthy, wealthy and wise painter's mature masterpieces, but the picture does demonstrate his growing genius. Beyond that, it glows with the animal drive and good spirits that were to make Rubens the most grandly physical of painters. No one ever depicted a jollier St. Joseph, a more cheerfully aggressive John the Baptist...
...Comic Strip. In the contemporary section of the 1953 Salon, the standouts were a brilliant tapestry design done by Jean Picart le Doux and an expertly drawn Quartet of musicians by Hilaire Camille. There was also some plain trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work...
...CREATIVE PROCESS elaborates Malraux's notion that art, not nature, is the true inspiration of art: "Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet poems and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a man who is thrilled by figures and landscapes. He is essentially one who loves pictures...
Pleissner's main strengths as a painter are the same that make him an able sportsman: patience and firmness. These old-fashioned virtues, combined with a lively feeling for landscape, have made Pleissner one of the nation's bestselling artists and won his work wall space in no less than 33 public collections. Pleissner may never mount Olympus, but he roams a respectable foothill...