Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors most concerned with the subject are Associate Editors Alexander Eliot and Cranston Jones. Eliot, a onetime painter himself, who had his first show when he was 17 and directed...
...Japan recently, "and the weapon we use is our youthfulness." As the most talked-about youngster in modern Japan, 24-year-old Shintaro Ishihara has every right to act as spokesman for his generation. Not yet a year out of college, he is already known as a composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this, Ishihara is the idol and godhead of a flamboyant and far-flung cult whose youthful...
...narrow the overwhelmingly abstract field, the three-man jury, composed of the directors of the national museums of France and Belgium and Yugoslav Painter Marko Celebonovic, studied and argued for a heated five hours. Then the jury announced the winner: Ben Nicholson's August 1956-Val d'Orcia...
...outbreak of World War I, Russian-born Alexei Jawlensky took refuge in Switzerland, after being expelled from Germany without being permitted to take along so much as one painting. To his aid came a young German painter, Emy Scheyer, one of the many women who found Jawlensky's combination of bearlike strength and artistocratic charm irresistible. She gave up painting to devote her life to promoting his work, built up her own collection to include more than 120 of Jawlensky's works, which, along with those of Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger, are now kept intact as a permanent...
...expressed in such pictures as Liberation and Italian Landscape, have led the artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged as early as the Sacco-Vanzetti series. More recently folk and primitive art, as represented in the Rousseau-like motifs of Summertime or the expressive decoration of Incutus, are apparent, as well as the influence of early European religious art and the grace...