Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico City, audiences cheered the first collaboration of three of Mexico's most gifted sons: Composer Carlos Chávez, Painter Miguel Covarrubias and Dancer José Limón. Their epic ballet, Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns), was the brilliant opener of a three-week national dance festival...
...past. But each new view he had of the world struck Turner as a challenge; he tackled and translated into paint everything from Alpine peaks and torrents down to Venetian gondolas and delicately tinted palaces. Turner studied the shimmering hugeness of the sea more closely than any previous painter. Once during a Channel crossing in a blizzard he had himself lashed to the mast, the better to observe the storm...
...grandfather clock) and white whales and is quite satisfactory; the banter, which I presume is meant to provide another frame of reference for the philosophy (besides the picture frame, which dominates the stage) is decidedly inferior. It is supposed to be humorous and leans heavily on the obvious (the Painter protests to Hawthorne who has stepped out of the picture: "Mr. Hawthorne, if you please! What's happening to my exhibition? People will talk...
...critics were more than kind. "Extraordinarily powerful and moving," one wrote. Another praised it as being "in the pictorial language of a 20th Century painter who is aghast at man's inhumanity to man." Lebrun's technique is clearly 20th Century, since it derives from Picasso's Guernica-done in 1937. That tormented masterpiece has a less pretentious theme (the bombing of a Spanish town) and a saving element of compassion that Lebrun's lacks...
Frye, an eminent authority on Blake and author of "Fearful Symmetry," considered Blake's origins, work, and influences as a poet, painter, and thinker...