Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says Painter Bouche: "As a matter of fact, I wanted it to look like a igth century montage; as for being tired, I am. I'm tired most of the time...
...officer with hands-in-pockets is Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery who has his own notions of soldierly bearing. For the photograph from which Painter Bouche worked...
...travelers were Edward Hopper, painter extraordinary, and his wife Jo. Painter Hopper was hard at his usual work: eyewitnessing America. The American scene is not only Edward Hopper's one subject, but his obsession as well. He stares with sober passion at the most ordinary things about the U.S., sights that esthetes turn away from and everyone else takes for granted...
American realism reached another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
...work breathes originality, but, as he himself remarked, "Every mind would appear original if every man had the power of projecting his own into the minds of others." Edward Hopper, who also has that power, puts it more concretely: "What lives in a painting is the personality of the painter...