Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Eliot brings some unique qualifications to his job. Both his parents are authors and his great-grandfather, Charles W. Eliot, most widely known for his "Five-Foot Shelf" of books, was president of Harvard University. A great-uncle, Portrait Painter Charles Hopkinson, gave his family an art tradition, as well...
...artist himself, Eliot tried all kinds of painting, from "tight realism to complete abstraction." In 1940 he made a gallery of his Boston apartment to exhibit the work of artist friends. But soon after that he began painting less & less and turned more & more toward writing. "A painter lives in his eyes," he says. "I felt a growing need to express myself in words. I'm not a painter any more...
Vermont House Painter Patsy (for Pasquale) Santo exhibited his first canvas in 1938 in hopes of getting a free ticket to the Rutland State Fair. He did not get the ticket, but his landscape, painted in oils from the local drugstore, won the art competition at the fair. Patsy bought himself some more paints and brushes and has been painting ever since...
Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...
...paintings re-exhibited, his stock has slowly but steadily risen. One reason is that Britons have become more used to Lewis' honest vehemence, more conscious of the truths wrapped up in it. Another is that since 1949 he has suffered the worst fate that can befall a painter: the gradual loss of his sight...