Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horse's Mouth is the story of the later life of Gully Jimson: painter, pauper, genius. Taken from the novel by Joyce Cary, the film consists of a number of incidents which act as a vehicle for the character of Gully Jimson. Everything is pointed toward Jimson, everything aimed at exposing his indomitable nature. In fact Jimson is the film, and Alec Guinness, as Jimson, is magnificent...
...gold medal went to Walter Plate, 33, for Hot House, a big, lush bouquet of thick colors, which thus became the Corcoran's latest acquisition. An ex-marine who studied painting in Paris under the G.I. bill, Plate thinks of himself as "a strictly American painter," by which he means an abstract expressionist. The $1,500 second prize went, oddly enough, to a bouncy figure painting: Jack Levine's lighthearted Girls from Fleugel Street...
...piano manufacturer, Rolfe became a Roman Catholic convert at 26, studied for the priesthood but was expelled from his seminary in Rome. For the rest, he was a weirdly gifted writer, schoolmaster, painter, photographer, workhouse inmate, homosexual, paranoiac, and perhaps the most merciless autobiographer ever to snarl at his own image. In his famed, partly autobiographical novel, Hadrian the Seventh, Rolfe created a fantasy in which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told...
Although his genius as an exhibitionist has often obscured his real importance as a painter, Dali clearly aims to exhibit many things besides himself. First on his list at present is the problem of finding visual equivalents for new-found scientific truths. To understand both painting and physics is not the same thing as to merge them, but Dali tries, and he is the only major painter making the attempt...
...Horse's Mouth. The film version does not quite come straight out of Novelist Joyce Gary's mouth, but Alec Guinness is almost the spitting, boozing, wheezing image of Gary's painter, a magnificently hilarious gutter genius...