Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portrait Painter Pietro Annigoni, who touched off the ruckus, most modern restorers are no more civilized than scalp-lifting red Indians. "The war did not destroy a greater number of works of art [than they]," said he. "I do not doubt the meticulous care employed by these renovators, nor their chemical skill, but I am terrified by the contemplation of these qualities in such hands as theirs...
...compliment you on the outstanding painting for your July 16 cover? Apart from my strong personal prejudice in favor of your subject, I, as a painter, am intensely appreciative of the very fine work by your artist James Chapin...
...solemn, plump, tightfisted and deceptively timorous little fellow, Copley at once set up shop as a portrait painter. At first he borrowed poses and tony backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent...
Consumer Reaction. In Hollywood, goaded by the sight of glittering new Oldsmobiles in an auto agency, unemployed Painter Clifford Frazier wheeled his dilapidated 1951 Chevrolet through the showroom window, smashed against a new Holiday sedan, explained: "I was mad at the world...
...drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said: "It's grand to see a painter who knew what he was doing...