Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France," Eliot said, "artists seem to age magnificently, perhaps because when they are young they worry less than U.S. artists about getting ahead. At 40, a French painter is still classified as 'young' and if he's not yet 'arrived' at 50 it's not too serious; he may still be admired in a cafe if not in a museum and his hopes for the future are treated with respect. France's best painters-Picasso, Matisse, Rouault, Chagall, Braque, Utrillo, Derain, Dufy, Vlaminck and Léger-are all in their...
Dingy Flats. What brought gawky (6 ft. 5 in.) Francis Chapin to Chicago as an art student in the first place was a conviction that the East, for all its galleries, dealers and big reputations, was dangerous for a painter's individuality. At Chicago's Art Institute "an artist had more chance to develop his own style," was not likely to be turned into a picayune Picasso or "little Kuniyoshi...
Visitors to the American pavilion at Venice's 25th biennial show of contemporary art, which opened this week, might well conclude that the U.S. boasts one great painter and six more-or-less indecipherable ones. The State Department had ducked the controversial honor of picking the U.S. entries; instead, the job had been done by officials of the Art Foundation of New York and Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Barr and Frankfurter had picked examples of the latest U.S. art fashions to export to Venice. Old John Marin, who sniffs at both abstractionism and expressionism, was the one painter in the U.S. pavilion whose reputation would clearly survive fashion...
...most abstract paintings in the series were not a bit "modern." Peter Nielson, who painted Alaska, is a Frog Indian whose work owes everything to his totem-pole-making ancestors. Painter Nielson was pleased to get the job, but explained that as the fish were running it would take him a couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer...