Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lured into culture through a business connection with a Harvard man (Claude Stroud), the opening script (written by Hollywood's Charles Isaacs and Jack Elinson) took a fresh and inventive look at a great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas blue; he suffers amusingly through a stint at the opera (someone told him it was "Tristan -versus Isolde"), and brilliantly handles a pugnacious drunk at a nightclub. Allen Jenkins agonizes familiarly as the champ's trainer, and Phyllis Coates is eye-filling...
...Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection de la Croix, a "genuine work by Anthony Van Dyck, where the creative power of the painter expresses itself masterfully." Estimated value...
...sandwich his sports in between part-time jobs. He played baseball on American Legion teams at 11, was a semi-pro at 14 (mainly because of his ability with a bat), and still found time to help support his family. For a while he was a slat-painter in a venetian-blind factory...
...contemporary Italian art seems lacking in strength, it does often show great decorative grace. A special show of contemporary Murano glass put most Italian paintings in the shade, and some flamboyant ceramic figures of working girls by light-fingered Leoncillo Leonardi outshone more pretentious sculptures. As best Italian painter, the jury picked Giuseppe Santomaso for his pleasantly decorative abstractions, which resemble swatches of colored silk and black thread in a stiff breeze. Prize for best Italian sculptor went to Pericle Fazzini (who makes a living by conservative church commissions), for some mildly sexy contortionists in wood and bronze...
...other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort...