Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first one-man show, held in Paris when he was 22, was a sellout. By 1908, bored with his success as a clever conventional painter, he began experimenting. He joined the Cubists and Futurists, daubed brightly colored abstractions...
...room may be the closest thing to a permanent home that wispy-haired little Painter Chagall will ever know. Since 1910, when he left Russia and its harrowing threat of pogroms for Paris, he had never really settled down. Haunted by his memories and searching for escape, he found it only in his unearthly, richly colored paintings, more like astral visions than the real world, with ghostly men & women, wandering violins, fish, cows and roosters floating across them like derelict balloons...
...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Gary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scape grace painter (TIME...
...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Gary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...
That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...