Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonardo was perhaps the most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted...
With Bodiker out converted fullback Art Painter, a junior, has moved up to the number two center slot behind Jan Meyer. Flanking Meyer in the principal line unit of the day were veteran guards Tim Anderson and Bill Meigs, tackles Dick Koch and Bill Frate, and ends Bob Cochran and Joe Rose...
...Koch have been with the number one group of late. The guards are Captain Tim Anderson, Bill Meigs, Jim Anthony, Tom Jones, and Ted Metropoulos, with Anderson and Meigs likely starters. Jan Meyer leads the center squad, which also includes Dave Bodiker, Dick Holzschuh, and converted fullback Art Painter...
Last week in an exhibit on the Lido, Venetians and visitors got a chance to inspect 215 of the Murano masters' fragile new pieces, designed by 64 artists of ten nations. Among the glass doves, sea monsters and slender figurines was evidence that some painters had found the medium too unfamiliar and inflexible. French Architect-Painter Le Corbusier had ignored the fragility of glass and wrought a massive form which he called Architectural Harmony. France's Georges Braque's facial silhouettes on a blue salad bowl were clumsy. But the U.S.'s Alexander Calder...
Letter Perfect. In Omaha, when officials of the Air Force Association's annual convention ordered 51 signs bearing the names of the 48 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, the sign painter delivered 51 signs, each neatly lettered: "The Forty-Eight States, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Hawaii...