Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late Love (by Rosemary Casey) pictures a household apparently bullied by a puritanical old dowager, but actually kept in chains by her priggish novelist son. It tells how a lady painter arrives to paint the master's portrait and stays on to set his people free...
Stars of Bacon's Manhattan show: five purplish ultramarine cardinals, including those opposite. Painter Bacon says he has nothing against cardinals: "Really I just wanted an excuse to use those colors, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple color without getting into a sort of false fauve manner." The fact that cardinals do not wear robes-or faces-that kind of purple troubles him not a whit...
NEXT week one of Manhattan's 57th Street galleries will turn itself into a chamber of horrors. The occasion: the first U.S. show of British Painter Francis Bacon,* who is responsible for perhaps the most original and certainly the ghastliest canvases to appear in the past decade. Bacon has brought the finicky satanism of Aubrey Beardsley, Britain's famed Victorian horror dabbler, up to date, but he tops Beardsley as surely as, in literature, Franz Kafka topped...
...idea of moving decorations is ancient, e.g., fluttering Chinese toys and streamers, the revolving cock or horse on weathervanes. But Calder pioneered the use of motion in a pure art form. The name "mobile" was first applied to his work in 1932 by French Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp...
Gibbet & Knot. Major André of the 54th Foot Regiment became the goat of the sorry affair. Handsome, cultivated, a poet-painter as well as adjutant general of the British Army in America, he was as eager for glory as Arnold. Let the American traitor turn over the fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier...