Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going through a list of about 15 modern painters, Heinz President Jack Heinz, 49, and Bunshaft soon chose Stuart Davis, 63 (TIME, March 15, 1954). Explains Heinz's Heinz: "After all, it doesn't take long to think of Stuart Davis. He's the dean." Painter Davis created his own design, evolved an ingenious rig that allowed him to swing the huge canvas over a wooden roller like a rug hung up on a clothesline. He worked six months from his first sketch to the completed work, produced the largest single canvas he has ever done...
...marriage of the century" between Actor-Painter John Barrymore and Socialite-Poetaster Blanche Oelrichs (who wrote and kept a salon as Michael Strange) was fondly expected to produce a great work of art, but all that ever came of it was Diana, "a fat little girl [with] straight black hair cut in stringy bangs." When Diana was four, Mother loosed her wedlock on Father, who went west to make movies and whoopee-a disappearance disastrous to Diana, or so the picture suggests. At any rate, when Diana was 20, she made her Broadway debut to impressive reviews, and went west...
...bottle of wine and went to sleep on the table." But it has been six months since Father Rosi has been attacked. "Pimps aren't all as bad as the novels make out," he says mildly. "I know one who has changed his life and become a house painter...
FAMED Viennese Painter Oskar Kokoschka has long boasted that his portraits captured the secret life of his subjects. Onetime Big Time Dancer Adele Astaire, who had never seen the original, last week viewed a color reproduction of her Kokoschka portrait (see color page) for the first time since it was painted in 1926, let out a cry of anguish, posed for a photographic version, finally calmed down enough to remark, "Well, it's better to be remembered as hideous and funny than not to be noticed at all." See ART, Psychological Portraitist...
This is an extracurricular movement which has no Shakespeare or Mozart to carry it along on the road to professionalism. The student painter, like his counterpart, the writer, has a universe to face strictly on his own. All the inspiration and mentors in the world do not constitute a script or score and the challenge involved more than balances the opportunity. As is often the case with local literary attempts, the gap between aspiration and achievement is due, much of the time, to a basic inability to cope with the art's more fundamental and less romantic aspects, rather than...