Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yolk for each sitting, always carries a spare egg in case of emergency. At their hotel in Rabat, said McHale, "I asked the bartender for two fresh eggs for my friend." The bartender replied: "Your friend, he is a magician?" Said McHale: "No, he's a painter." Asked the bartender: "He paints eggs?" "No," said McHale, "he paints with eggs." The bartender smiled thinly, gave McHale the eggs and politely dropped the subject...
...four years Bing had been looking forward to the day when he could replace his creaking old Giovanni sets and spring the opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
Died. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 80, versatile sculptor, painter, etcher, one of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...
...rule they paint little, squidgy, fancy things, all prettied up like valentines, and I don't blame the public for not liking them." The speaker, whose signature is simply "Marx," is as masculine as a powderpuff. Marcia Marx Bennett, 26, is a wife, mother-and a good painter. Last week the pretty blonde from Newark had a smash hit show at Mexico City's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes, the first American woman painter and the second American ever invited to hold a one-artist show there...
Splash in Mexico. A child painter who won her first prize when she was twelve, Marcia Bennett bucked parental objections ("My father thought I would wind up barefooted living with a gigolo in some basement") to follow through with an art career after studying at Columbia and Yale. Married to a Washington, D.C. businessman, Marcia fell in love with Mexico on a vacation trip, persuaded her husband to go into business there as a mining engineer. She soon managed to become a friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong...