Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki, queen of the Montparnasse models, in her diary. Kisling returned the compliment by faithfully reproducing her generous curves in his solidly painted canvases. Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called...
...week's end, thought the new Kislings better than ever. Wrote Critic Jean Bouret of Arts: "How simple good painting is. It is not to be found in discussions, in estheticism, in intellect, but in sensualism, joy and serenity." The France Soir's critic called Kisling the "painter of happiness and tenderness . . . The only Central European painter who has not brought us morose complexes...
Friends found him and carried him back to Villa's headquarters, where a carpenter made a blue cross to put on his grave when he died. Pancho Villa himself told the painter that the lettering on the cross should read, "Lieut. Colonel Pedro Gomez." Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters. One of them accidentally touched off a fuse and the car blew up. The only survivor: Gomez...
...Based on French Painter Jean de Brunhoff's charming fables for children, in which elephants are like better-behaved bourgeois Frenchmen...
European art strikes him as being too precious. "Here," he thinks, "we should create a more human art. . . A painter should paint for the million and not for a predetermined sect or level." Perhaps because he paints "for the million," Di has been accused of being a Communist. He denies it: "Political creeds stand between the artist and that which he wants to interpret. It is sufficient to be human...