Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portraits, official portraits, miniature portraits, portraits from photographs." It could truthfully add: "portraits of houses and pets, portrait statuettes and portraits of portraits." One artist in the gallery's 100-man stable specializes in copies of other artists' paintings. Explains Mrs. Lois Shaw, the gallery president: "The painter often doesn't do a good job of copying his own work. He's apt to try to improve...
...student with musical talent can play in the orchestra or sing in the glee club with the best professional direction, so a student should be able to do water colors or model with the aid of really competent guidance. A studio open to all students with a professional painter or sculptor in charge is a desirable...
Bayer is a former student of Gropius at the Bauhaus and is recognized both as a painter and an industrial designer. Bayer, in his late forties, has not Hraited himself to painting, but is considered one of the most promising men in the field...
...violent, and fanatically religious father, Munch grew up in an atmosphere compounded of love, pride and fear. Illness continually interrupted his schooling until, at 17, he went to art school. A few years later he had put on weight and assurance, become the biggest, best and hardest-drinking young painter in Oslo's equivalent of Greenwich Village...
Munch overcame the brilliant painter's instinct to paint brilliantly. No one looking at his Self-Portrait with a Wine Bottle would be likely to exclaim first of all about Munch's technical skill. The fine painting is rigorously subordinated to the subject: a man, angry, lonely and lost, who stares from the deep perspective of the canvas...