Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Sizer graduated from Harvard in 1916, went to Yale in 1927 after serving as curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art and lecturing at Western Reserve. An imposing man with a massive mustache, he soon made his mark in New Haven. His particular hero was the Revolutionary painter John Trumbull, and, like Colonel Trumbull, he seemed to come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that of Theodore Sizer marching majestically...
...books and reproductions - no longer shock. In retrospect, some seem to be failures. But there remains an overwhelming sense of endless vitality and prolific invention. Each painting bears the visual impact and unmistakable stamp of authority of the greatest of modern draftsmen. The overall impression is of a great painter who has painted few absolute masterpieces, because he seldom lingered long enough with any one work to bring it to perfection. But even his failures are monumental - testament of a man made in a larger mold than any other artist of his time...
...more than any other, did the changing. Picasso himself obligingly recalls his point of departure with an early canvas. Le Moulin de la Galette (see opposite), painted when he was 19 and a fiery-eyed Spanish provincial on his first visit to Paris. "Banal but talented," pronounced Painter Amedee Ozenfant, "and that's how it should be. A beginner is not a master...
Make It Ugly. Then, abrupt as a blow, came Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, a painting done in 1907 depicting five dramatic salmon-pink nudes, their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman...
Compass Points. In Miami, House Painter Elias Barimo, bringing a $100,000 suit against the Southern Bell Telephone Co.. stated that in painting an office baseboard he "commenced at the southwest corner, painting in a northerly direction to the northwest corner, then easterly to the northeast corner, then southerly to the southeast corner, and then commenced painting in a westerly direction along the south wall toward the point of beginning," where he bumped into a telephone booth placed against the wall while he was at work and was struck on the head by a panel...