Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best Kelly-on-canvas is from the brush of Sidney Nolan, 40, whose current show at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery is getting rave reviews and earning him recognition as Australia's leading painter. Nolan first heard of Ned Kelly from his grandfather, a fourth-generation Australian and retired policeman. Years later, when Nolan began painting the wild landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, the legends became the central images of his work...
...brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could be encompassed with his limited vision, was a Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf) on a canvas only 30 inches wide, compressed in the scene 48 convincingly grouped portrait figures (at the table before John Hancock stand John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin). Though the subject lacked action...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
When the late Philip Lehman, head of Wall Street's Lehman Bros., and his wife started collecting in 1911, they began cautiously by buying a conventional Hoppner, Rembrandt's Portrait of an Elderly Man, Goya's Countess Altamira, and two matching portraits by 15th century painter Francesco del Cossa. Their first modest plunge, which today would strain most museum budgets, barely caused a ripple in an art world then dominated by such high, wide spenders as J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick and Benjamin Altman...
Room for the Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues...