Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter Braque does not like to be asked how he manages to stay young of eye. "There is only one thing in art,that is worthwhile," he says. "It is that which cannot be explained." Outwardly he is the same as ever, an even-tempered, meticulous workman sometimes called "France's first artisan." Though he is a wealthy man (half of his current show is already sold, at prices up to $30,000 a painting), he still rises at 6 each morning, puts in a full day sketching, painting, or just jotting down ideas. His pleasures are simple...
...field. Her father, a colonel of Austro-Hungarian dragoons, started his children off early in art. Often, after dinner, she remembers, "he would put a pot of flowers or something on the table and we children would all copy it." But Marie Francisca never particularly tried to be a painter. "There were enough finished paintings," she says crisply. "People preferred to have their old paintings restored...
...Paris knows, Jean Lurçat's rosy dream might come true. Europe is in the midst of a tapestry boom, and Lurçat can take much of the credit. A onetime cubist painter, he started designing tapestries shortly before World War II. His idea was that most contemporary work, modeled on the tastes of 18th century boudoir muralists, was too fussy and too expensive. Lurçat drew up designs with a simpler look, chose a few basic colors, and hired weavers at Aubusson's famed factories to turn them out. His 1946 show...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...
Georgia O'Keeffe, "painter who opens to us the beauty both of flower and of skull, matriarch of American art" ............Litt.D...