Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years as a painter, Fransioli has done 76 pictures, sold 64 (current prices: $400 to $1,200). At 49, he is still looking for change. His two latest canvases-a corner of his bedroom as he sees it when he wakes up in the morning, and a black cat vaguely reflected in a window-have moody overtones suggesting that Fransioli may be tending toward introspection. But while he experiments, he will still save his needle-sharp No. 1 brushes for sure-selling landscape commissions and the sunlight-and-shadow world he paints so precisely...
...Same Old Desert. Famed Surreal ist Painter Tanguy, 54, does not look like a medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes...
Tanguy the country gentleman may be as baffled as anyone else by the products of Tanguy the painter. Baffled or not, he keeps on painting pictures that are almost all brilliantly done, decorative and mighty stimulating at first glance...
Melancholy but graceful, Lady of Beauty is steeped in the sights and sounds and rituals of Japanese life. As if to signify her own conviction that the old Japan is dead. Author Yamata now shuttles be tween Paris and the shores of Lake Leman with her Swiss painter husband. Yet she recalls the self-exiled Joyce, who could write only of Dublin: while Author Yamata may have left Japan, Japan will never wholly leave her-or anyone who opens her finespun novel...
Todd Lincoln. Following six previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises...