Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important acquisition in four years-a little-known Renoir they called Coco and Gabrielle (TIME, March 17)-TIME's San Francisco bureau suggested the exhibition as a likely art story. For further background material TIME asked its Los Angeles bureau to interview Gabrielle, one of the painter's favorite models, now living in Hollywood. She had been a nurse for Renoir's son Claude ("Coco...
Fellow actors are apt to give him bad marks in technique, but they are impressed by his ability to immerse himself in a role, study it, think about it, live it. When he played Rembrandt, he read every scrap he could find about the painter, down to details on what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these...
Alan D. Gruskin, director of Manhattan's Midtown Galleries, was in a complaining mood: the abstractions that young painters are turning out these days are just "too academic-a formula too easy for the young painter to learn without ever having learned the fundamentals." Last week Gruskin put on a show that was about as fundamental as he could imagine. Its subject: the nude...
Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...
...some were painted blue, he says, and they were "screeching" at each other at the top of their lungs. The Russians sent men ashore to parley. The Aleuts held one of them captive, and tried with unmannerly glee to drag the Russian longboat on to the rocks by its painter. Waxell called for musketry, aimed high; the Aleuts fell flat on their faces from shock. All in all, the Russians were unimpressed with the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, especially with their custom of plugging the nose with tough grass: "When they took this out, it gave off a quantity...