Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. In 1954, while on a visit to Italy, Quinn made a memorable meatball of the carnival strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, and last year he produced a vivid portrait of a genius as Painter Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life. The critics raved, and everybody seemed to agree that nothing was too good for Actor Quinn. Nevertheless, in his two latest pictures, just about the most significant thing his employers have permitted him to create is a three days' growth of beard...
...playground. During a World War II hitch in the U.S. Navy, he found himself whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam of "the sea of junk around...
...greatest of the surrealists," is the title leading French Critic Claude Roger-Marx has bestowed posthumously on Odilon Redon, the strange, self-effacing painter of dreams and visions who so perplexed his 19th century impressionist colleagues. Although he was a contemporary of such greats as Manet, Monet, Renoir and Cézanne, Redon was out of step with his generation. He set out on his own path, investigated what lay in and behind the shadows that the sun-struck painters of his day chose to ignore...
...postgraduate work." The winners, chosen with the help of an all-star advisory committee of top architects, museum directors and Swiss Art and Architecture Historian Sigfried Giedion: Sculptor-Welders Harry Bertoia, 41, of Barto, Pa., Joseph Goto, 36, of Chicago and Keith Monroe, 39, of San Francisco; Painter Walter Kuhlman, 38, of San Francisco; Architects Frederick Kiesler, 64, of New York City and Paul Nelson, 62, an American now practicing in Paris; Painter-Film-Maker James Edward Davis, 55, of Princeton, N.J.; Chicago Photographer Harry Callahan, 44, and French Critic Jean Leymarie...
...station on a four-lane highway. "I had the idea for it quite a while," he says. "But not so very long, I guess." (The reverse declarative is a Hopper hallmark.) "I didn't think much of it at the start. Still, if you're a painter you have to do something...