Word: painter
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...painter who amused himself by imagining the Pygmies of the upper Nile (opposite page, bottom) broke with tradition. Like many late Pompeian artists, he found a sketchy, exaggerated, caricaturing approach best suited to his age. His somewhat bloodthirsty and hurried cartoon seems remarkably contemporary in the 20th century - it might almost be mistaken for a panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger...
...surprise, it turns out to be a studio hung with canvases. Grandgil, the arch-tough, is a painter. When his girl friend phones, and he tells her, "I disguised myself as a gangster . . . it's very easy, too easy," Martin turns blue-mad, says, "I know how to amuse myself with other people's work, too." and slashes a painting. When Grandgil leaps for him, he gets a knife in the belly. To the arresting police Martin says philosophically...
...Painter Kokoschka is just as lively as ever, a leathery, vigorous extrovert who likes nothing better than tilting at established institutions. He expects to have the time of his life in Salzburg with his 40 students. During his month-long course, financed by the provincial government, he has no intention of teaching his pupils how to paint in any classroom course. Says Kokoschka: "I will teach them how to see again. This is a faculty lost to modern society...
ENGLAND'S most honored living painter is half a century old this summer, and basking in the rays of glory reflected from a big retrospective show at London's Tate Gallery. In the exhibition catalogue, two of his country's leading critics pay him extraordinary homage. Artist Graham Sutherland, says Sir Kenneth Clark, is "the outstanding English painter of his generation, and in the last 12 years has had a dominant influence on younger artists." Sir Herbert Read goes even further: "Sutherland is possibly the first English painter since Turner who has been bold enough to take...
Detroit's Institute of Arts, which has been energetically working its way up the list of the nation's top museums, added a treasure last week that even such giants as Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery would be proud to own. The painter was Italy's Renaissance Master Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta (1392-1450). The work: a dramatic series of three small (the largest, 19¼ by 25 in.) panels from a 15th century altarpiece showing Christ's Agony in the Garden, The Betrayal of Christ and the Procession to Calvary...