Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from...
Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate symbolist. But back in the 1880s it was Bernard, at 20, just half Gauguin's age, who led the older man beyond impressionism and guided him toward the style that now defines him. Bernard was painting like Gauguin before Gauguin himself...
...along impressionist lines. Bernard was a precocious, rebellious, perceptive intellectual. He used to go on painting jaunts outside Paris with another unknown named Vincent van Gogh, who thought well of Bernard's work. Van Gogh urged Bernard to see Gauguin, who had once rebuffed him, and the young painter went to Pont-Aven in early August 1888 equipped with the latest avant-garde notions from the capital plus some theories of his own and the ability to expound them all brilliantly. He was working away from impressionistic effects on canvas toward a symbolism in which simplified forms would forcefully...
Though not nearly so talented as Gauguin, Bernard was much more articulate. Young Bernard's theories fired the older painter's imagination, prodded him to formulate his own ideas, and drove him to experiment on canvas. The two friends painted together at Pont-Aven, feverishly discussed their daily discoveries. That summer Gauguin made the major stylistic break of his life, began painting in the style that was to make him famous...
...Blue Horses. As Kandinsky developed from his Fauve to his abstract period, conservatives in his group rebelled. Kandinsky, Gabriele, Marc and Kubin walked out on them, soon to be joined by Jawlensky, Campendonck, Klee and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who at the time fancied himself a painter. They formed der Blaue Reiter group. The name was thought up by Kandinsky and Marc over a cup of coffee. "We both loved blue," Kandinsky later recalled. "Marc loved horses, I loved riders. So the name came naturally...