Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that tends increasingly toward gloom, horror and mathematical coldness in art, the painter who makes a critical success with warm and happy pictures is an exception. Such an artist is Vytautas Kasiulis, 36, a refugee from Lithuania, whose one-man show in Paris last week was a solid hit with critics and buyers alike...
...Painter Kasiulis is as gentle and unpretentious as the characters of his paintings -and as much a victim of hard knocks as they. Before 1943 he taught drawing at the Fine Arts School in Kaunas, the capital of his native Lithuania. Then the Nazis shipped him off as a slave laborer to an East Prussian farm. There Kasiulis milked cows and painted portraits of local German bigwigs, a service for which he was rewarded with extra food rations. After the war, helped by sympathetic Allied officers, he made his way to Paris, where he got a job as a nightwatchman...
...strain. Part of the charm of these pictures lies in the tension between a recalcitrant image and the artist's determination to get it down on his canvas or panel . . . Basically realistic, he manages to convey the specific character of his subject with a vividness which the academic painter, trained to generalize and to idealize, often loses...
Among them was Walt Whitman, who cried over the roofs of the world that Eakins "is not a painter, he is a force...
...found another great influence on both her life and her art. In 1930 she saw the work of British Abstractionist Ben Nicholson for the first time, an experience which "helped to release all of my energies for an exploration of free sculptural form." She fell in love with the painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form...