Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting: Dutch meadows for the tulips, mountain heights for the kalmia, a forbidding coast for the American cowslip, a gothic midnight for the night-blowing cereus. If the results have more period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious and often a vain lot-keep trying each summer to paint them...
...dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness of street urchins, the sag of a dray horse pulling a heavy load. Since Painter Bedikian still lacks the official critical accolade, his pictures were selling at the relatively modest average of 90,000 francs (about...
...liveliest figures in Parisian art circles these days is an Armenian painter named Krikor Bedikian, who rejects all the artistic isms of contemporary Paris in favor of a strong, realistic style of his own. His guiding rule is one that he believes also guided the men of the Italian Renaissance: "Paint so that even illiterates will understand...
Paris critics admit that Painter Bedikian, 44, knows his business, but most consider him an artistic reactionary, complain that "his work adds nothing to the general history of art." A small corps of Bedikian boosters disagrees. One enthusiast, writing in the financial daily, L'lnformation, has even called him "one of the great names of tomorrow . . . the heir to the old masters and the greatest modern painters...
...back rooms at London's Tate gallery are sometimes ignored by art lovers, but those who took the trouble to visit one of them last week found the trip well worth the effort. On display there was the work of Gwen John, elder sister of famed Painter Augustus John, and an artist almost unknown before her death in 1939. Even six years ago, when a memorial show of her work was held in London, the critical reaction was guarded. This time the critics took a second look. Wrote John Russell in the Sunday Times: "The judgment of history . . . will...