Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubbornest disorders to treat is painter's colic-lead poisoning. Two Alabama researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that they have treated 19 cases easily and successfully with a trick salt called disodium calcium versenate. Lead replaces the calcium and is expelled in the urine...
...Buffet (hélas!)," was the way one French painter marked his ballot. By an almost 2-to-1 vote, his colleagues agreed. Like it or not, the hottest thing in contemporary French art is the stark, spiny, thinly painted work of 26-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Painter Buffet was almost made to order to catch the imagination of postwar France, then wrapped up in the gloomy cult of existentialism. His subject matter was skinned rabbits, sticklike nudes, grim, bare interiors. Even his inarticulateness suited the times. Said Buffet, in one of his rare statements about...
JEAN CARZOU, 48, a self-taught painter who works with delicate, fuzzy line to produce evocative paintings with attenuated, surrealist overtones...
JEAN BAZAINE, 50, a sculptor turned painter whose abstract stained-glass windows at Assy and Audincourt are among the best modern glass work in France...
...Paris Painter Georges Mathieu appears to be crazy like a fox-one with a particularly long and wavy brush. A slim, trim dandy of 34, he has made a good living as a pressagent. And by adroitly publicizing himself, Mathieu has recently become the reigning darling of advance-guard art, has no trouble selling (at prices ranging from $600 to $3,400) pictures that take only from a few minutes to a few hours to paint. Last week a new exhibition of Mathieu's paintings was on view at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, and proved...