Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the directors gave in. They placed an order for 20,000 posters and 100,000 postcard reproductions of the painting, duly dispatched a Fiat "1400" to Painter de Chirico in return...
...followers of the last 50 years, they still ranked with the best the U.S. has produced. Two of them-Whistler and Sargent-had been polished expatriates whose works reflected London and London society with all the elegance and sheen of an opera hat. Landscapist Winslow Homer and Philadelphia Portrait Painter Thomas Eakins, who stayed at home, painted with a directness and clarity that no U.S. artist has yet surpassed...
...Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...
...falls back on traditional art forms, he is simply returning to Picasso's own beginnings. A painter. who easily masters every tool of his trade, is easily bored with everything new he tries, Picasso often seems not just one individual but half a dozen. Since work, for Picasso, means self-expression above all else, his art changes as fast as the artist. And his life, like his art, has always been a ragged succession of brief, blind voyages to unknown ports of call...
...misfortune," he gayly explained, "to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things-so much the worse for them, they just have to put up with...