Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, in 1912, the Chicago Tribune's Bert Leston Taylor lampooned an extraordinary show by a 31-year-old painter. Except for its jeering tone, the jingle was an accurate enough statement of the creed of Painter Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), who avowedly intended to paint such things as the sensation of the wind blowing on a hill, without necessarily showing either wind or hill. Chicago was as unconvinced by Dove's works as Manhattan had been a few weeks earlier. ("They were over the heads of the people," admitted pioneer Art Dealer-Photographer Alfred Stieglitz.) Broke...
...Dove's work now starting a crosscountry tour at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, and a new book by Art Critic Frederick S. Wight (Arthur G. Dove; University of California; $2). Together they go far to establish Dove's status as the U.S.'s first abstract painter and a pivotal figure in contemporary...
...Bonn for 52 cases of fraud, 25 cases of falsification of documents, and various charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house painter, carpet beater and handyman from Vienna who had already served time in an Austrian jail for earlier forgeries...
...path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects of Teutonic picture making which plagued so many of Feininger's contemporaries. Feininger's concern is to sing rather than to cry out. The effect, in a painter, is becoming...
During a Feininger exhibition at the Curt Valentine Gallery some years ago, a painter remarked that there was really no canvas in the show he would like to take home despite his superlative opinion of the exhibit. He went on to say that, nevertheless, this was the best show on Fifty-Seventh Street and not one easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman...