Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter Graham Sutherland to hand the next prize of $1,300 to Italian Abstractionist Alberto Magnelli...
Hash Slingers & Barkeeps. The plight of Painter du Casse is typical of most Western artists. After getting an M.A. in art at the University of California on the G.I. bill, Du Casse took a year in Paris, polished off at Hans Hofmann's strong hold of abstract art in New York. But back in San Francisco with a wife and two children to support, Du Casse had to take a job as a furniture salesman, now paints only on his days...
...most popular painter in the world today, judging by gallerygoers' reactions and reproduction sales, is the sensual impressionist, Pierre Auguste Renoir. Leonardo commands greater awe, but awe is a long way from affection: at the Louvre it is not the tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures...
Died. Max Pechstein, 73, leading German expressionist painter, lecturer at the Berlin Academy of Plastic Arts; in Berlin. A leader of pre-World War I German impressionists, Pechstein built an international reputation in the 1920s, was denounced as "decadent" by the Nazis, saw most of his canvases destroyed during the war, returned to Berlin afterward to repaint many of his early works from memory (TIME...
...result, the best firsthand views of history in the making are the work of self-taught engravers and limners, who turned out such rough-and-ready works as The Battle of Lexington (above}, a joint work by Painter Ralph Earl and Engraver Amos Doolittle. both believed to have been members of the New Haven Cadets under Captain Benedict Arnold.* Between Copley's departure and Stuart's return in 1793, the best contemporary portraits of the men who led the Revolution were all done by Soldier-Painter Peale...