Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your fine article in the May 6 issue on ''Masterpieces of Chinese Art," and especially of the reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest poets, would...
...philosopher is hidden in the painter, but Gerassi does come forth with a Spanish sense of tragedy combined with hope. It is reflected in pictures like the black and white jug with its tragic air or in such remarks as: "Each time you fail, you learn something. If you have faith in yourself, you go on. The more failures, the better...
...Spanish painter Juan Gris once defined classicism as a perfect balance between the emotional and intellectual. In that sense, Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s collection reflects a truly classic taste. Most private collections mirror the collector in some way, revealing a conservative temperament or avant-garde spirit, sometimes a literary bent or romantic strain. Some, influenced by reputation or advice, reflect no intellectual activity other than faith. The Pulitzers' choice, however, represents not only a distinct personality but a clarified point of view...
...seek their poetic strength in art in terms of a diversity of temperaments. I first saw Picasso's Woman in Blue in New York several years ago and never forgot it. Possibly the most exciting of the ten Picassos here, its blacks and reds, blues and violets, unite the painter's apparently endless ingenuity with his most substantial creative capacities...
...could Braque's impeccable richness be better presented than in four still-lives chosen by the Pulitzers. Representing three especially important periods, they fully justify the tribute accorded Braque by the painter of Woman in Blue: "He never sings...