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...seems improbable that, by now, there could be such a creature as a great but little-known 16th century Italian painter, but so it is--at least in America--with Lorenzo Lotto (circa 1480-1556). The current show of 51 of his paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, co-curated by art historians David Alan Brown, Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, is actually the first ever held in the U.S. It can't pretend to give a full view of Lotto, the bulk of whose work consisted of some 40 altarpieces in various towns in northern Italy...
...against it for two reasons. I didn't want to give up the delight of not having to answer to another person, and I was worried about how my two boys would react to a stepfather." Those sons are in their 30s, one an architect and the other a painter and musician; one of them produced Morrison's first grandchild...
Melvin's isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter (Greg Kinnear) who lives in the apartment next door, and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress (Helen Hunt) who serves him lunch every day. Melvin doesn't technically befriend either character. His first words to Simon, the painter, are bigoted and vicious, and all he wants from Carol the waitress is his bacon and eggs done right with as little small talk as possible...
DIED. RALPH FASANELLA, 83, self-taught painter; in Yonkers, N.Y. A machinist who took up the brush to help his arthritis, Fasanella was "discovered" in 1972. His favorite subjects: the Big Apple and its human gridlock...
...drawing. He loved the act. Drawing was sifting the world's disorder. It was making sense of random agglomerations of things, unconscious postures of the body. (In all his drawings and paintings of his wife Phyllis, you only rarely get the sense that she was actually posing.) Every painter has favorite shapes and gestures, which, unless they encounter some resistance, can turn into mannerisms. Diebenkorn's style certainly grew some mannerisms, but drawing--the continuous friction against obdurate motifs--prevented them from getting ingrown, turning into tics...