Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of the name of just one painter, "Bassano" had been the property of half a dozen. Jacopo's father Francesco was a painter of Madonnas and Christ childs for mountain churches, had passed the art on to his son. In turn, all four of Jacopo's sons were painters: Francesco. Leandro, Girolamo, Giambattista. One daughter, Silvia, married a painter; another daughter, Marina, had a son and grandson, both of whom became painters. All were influenced by Jacopo, and all used the adopted name Bassano...
...subjects were strictly 20th century but a long way from conventional modernism. Painter Paul Resika, 24, who once was an abstractionist, showed two straining dockworkers grappling with heavy sacks against a classic background; Pegeen Helion, 27, produced a pattern of bright, doll-like figures in gondolas, and German-born Ernest Mondorf, 27, a large, symbolic study of intertwined nudes...
Most interesting of the lot was a 38-year-old ex-abstractionist named Edward Melcarth, who paints mural-size canvases of factories and workmen, using one of the Renaissance's favorite materials, egg tempera. Painter Melcarth has his eye on what he hopes is a potential new market for art: U.S. labor unions. He plans to ship off canvases to various union headquarters around the country and invite the members to pay him whatever they think his paintings are worth. In San Francisco, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union now has before...
Time's editor notes that, "The most notable quality in his (Van Leyden's) paintings is their daylight luminosity." They describe the painter at 33 as "rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists...
...Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order job for Clem Caditz. said Painter Matisse, was "completely exceptional...