Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern painter, the commission to paint a mural in a given space does not come too often in our time. To be given a wall in an architecturally outstanding building is almost unique, especially as in this case my painting will not be the only "piece of art", but will be in company with creations of some of the leading modernists in sculpture and painting...
Among the interior furnishings yet to be incorporated into the Center is a mural for the large dining room. Juan Miro, designer of the mural, is described by Gropins as "the world's greatest painter of modern murals." The mural, presently on exhibit in Paris, will be brought to America and probably installed in the Center before Christmas vacation...
...vault of the great eastern apse is now dominated by the "monumental" mosaic of the 14th century which shows the "Mother of God and the Child" looking down with compassion upon the worshippers below. The Archangel Gabriel, attributed to the ninth century mosaic painter Lazarus, flanks this scene...
Married. Mrs. D. H. (Frieda) Lawrence, 71, German-born widow of the English novelist (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love), who died in 1930; and her longtime friend, Angelino Ravagli, 59, Italian-born painter and ceramist; she for the third time, he for the second; in Taos...
...Drawing," French Painter Jean Ingres once remarked, "is the probity of art." To many laymen, modern art as a whole lacks probity. But that does not mean the moderns can't draw. The best of them, like the best artists of any century, draw almost as they please. The trouble is that few moderns care to please the puzzled layman. That point was driven home last week with an exhibition of drawings by 86 top-drawer moderns in the north Italian city of Bergamo...