Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging lone wolf of Mexican art, Painter Rufino Tamayo, his country's greatest modernist, has never hesitated to deliver outspoken blasts at Marxism. In Mexico's Red-dominated art world, this earned him some formidable foes; chief among them, naturalistic Muralist Diego Rivera. Just as they, clashed over politics, Communist Rivera and Tamayo, who wears no political label, disagreed about art: Tamayo shied away from Rivera's hard-lined propagandist works, and Rivera had no love for Tamayo's warm-toned semiabstractions. For 20 years the two artists have exchanged few kind words. Last week Tamayo...
Professor Huang, now 59, got part of his early training from his family's picture-mounter, Su Chang, whose "Studio of Pines and Snow" was a collector's hangout famous throughout China. A recognized painter by the time he was 20, Huang spent the Nationalist government's long wartime exile in Chungking teaching and making sketching trips along the wild and misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. He went to Formosa in 1948 as a member of a good-will mission just before Communists seized control of Nanking's National Central University, where...
...Soul of a Soulless City," Painter C. R. W. Nevinson called it -predeceased McNulty by a few months. John McNulty himself would never have gone on in Nevinson's excitable fashion about a segment of New York's rapid-transit system, but in a subtle, simple way -by drinking, thinking and writing on the avenue-he made the caption come true. This excellent selection of his stories, articles and miscellaneous pieces proves that a man can find wisdom as well as booze in a gin mill...
Gallery Owner Cordier's show was an odd outgrowth of last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. Traveling in Russia at the time of the festival, Cordier was approached by a French-speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that...
...several ages. The 18th century, which gave birth to the nation, was Protestant, pragmatic, rationalistic. Once when a customer complained that Portraitist Gilbert Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails...