Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italian art these days is a three-ring circus. Painter Filippo de Pisis, 55, seems as out of place in it as a hummingbird in a cage of acrobatic bears. While his countrymen have been shooting off futuristic fireworks or ponderously balancing metaphysics and Marxism, he has darted and hovered, recording the surface of things, in glancing, wing-light strokes...
...thinks Picasso overrated, and British art underrated. Says British Painter-Critic Michael Ayrton: "If we in England have one virtue carried to excess, it is our deplorable modesty and sense of inferiority when discussing our own visual arts." As art critic for the weekly Spectator and other British publications, he has waged a hot one-man campaign to boost British art, and denounced Picasso, as "the archangel Lucifer of painting...
...There are my brushes," jokes Belgian Painter Constant Permeke, 64, pointing to the brooms in the corner of his studio. At first glance, Permeke's lowering land and seascapes, bulky peasants and heavy-limbed nudes look as though they might well have been swept on to the canvas with a carelessly bound bunch of straw. But their spontaneity and crudely powerful draftsmanship have earned him a place as a leader of Belgian expressionism and, according to some critics, "one of the most incontestable masters that Belgium has given...
Italy's postwar literary comeback was sparked in 1945 by Carlo Levi, a stocky ex-physician who prefers to be known as a painter. His Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), a prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...
...lived in Rome, with a staircase so spacious that G.I.s drove up & down it in their jeeps. These are bits & pieces, some of them very good, but they cannot make a book and they do not begin to make a novel. At 48, Carlo Levi is still the middling painter who wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli...