Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, even the earliest painters of the West were recording an already vanishing era. The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist...
...artists, the immensity of the new West was an overwhelming experience. One German-trained painter, Albert Bierstadt, who accompanied General F. W. Lander's surveying expedition to Oregon in 1858, is said to have sketched a spectacular formation in the Rockies, then refused to paint it, explaining in despair: "Few people would believe they are real rocks." Painters also found their ingenuity taxed by the great spaces and the harsh light of the West. Lacking an adequate technique for handling light, they often fell back on filling their canvases with lurid sunsets, fire, even rainbows, to give the impact...
Died. Yves Tanguy, 55, French-born pioneer surrealist painter of impeccably drawn dream landscapes (Mama, Papa Is Wounded!; Slowly Toward the North; Indefinite Divisibility); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Waterbury, Conn. One of the group of young painters who formed the original surrealist school in Paris in the 1920s, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, became renowned for his stark pictures of rubble-strewn deserts and towering geometrical forms...
...svelte adventuress two-times him into jail. Back in Japan after war's end, he sedulously avoids his wife, who has remarried in the meantime, and his grown-up daughter. He gets caught up with a whole series of characters who are more representative than real: a serious painter who stays alive by strumming a guitar in a sleazy cabaret, an ex-admiral who checks shipments at a soap factory, a black-marketeering student with a nose for yen and a yen for such un-Japanese customs as holding hands and kissing. Like identical beads, these characters are threaded...
...find may well boost interest in the very great Renaissance painter who had all but dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere, and his ability to use form and light to give flesh tones an almost silver sheen. It took the followers of Cézanne, with their taste for color and geometric form, to start Piero's comeback; other modernists, in rebellion against the 19th century love of the elaborate...