Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...versions are as different in mood and style as they are in composition. In No.1, says Critic Venturi, "everything is realized in the spirit of the characters rather than in the demonstration of the event." But in Nos. 2 and 3, Painter Caravaggio was clearly trying to stress dramatic, physical movement-a concession, says Venturi, to the classicist critics...
...businesslike calm. Switzerland has produced a few passionate painters, and possibly two with an important place in art history. The first was the sophisticated fantasist Paul Klee, who died in 1946. His art had all the delicacy and sparkle of a Swiss watch. The second great Swiss painter may well be Max Gubler, 54, a sober, square-faced man with straggly grey hair and intense grey eyes. His art is sunny and nourishing as Swiss cheese. Last week the Zurich Art Museum was staging a retrospective show of 136 Gubler canvases dating all the way back...
...canvases in his studio. He works fast, but when a painting goes badly, he puts it aside at once, perhaps for months. "You have to get it inside yourself," he says. "Talent you can have in your pocket, but poetry is the thing, the light, the vision of the painter, beyond all words and theories...
...mother died when he was six. The sickly boy was a trial to his practical father, the more so because he would not pay attention in school but was always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with the boy's genius that he adopted him and educated...
...interest in the project. Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled. The Pope then put Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time he gave the painter no peace, coming day after day with questions and suggestions. Once the terrible-tempered Florentine threatened to throw the Pope down off the scaffold; once the Pope actually beat the painter with his cane...