Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painters managed to outrage the respectable standards of their day with more gusto than France's master of 19th century realism, Gustave Courbet. In his time he kept up a running battle with critics, who found his work sordid and common, termed him a "butcher" and "a great stupid painter." Today Courbet's work is attacked from the new academy of abstraction as too photographic...
...work while the rest of the House eats. A producer must be a jack-of-all-trades at Harvard. He must know where he can rent lights for the cheapest rates, what printer will put out his program with the least delays, and he must be an architect, painter, and electrician to ready his show for an opening...
...Painter Diplomat...
France's 19th century Impressionist Painter Berthe Morisot (sister-in-law of Edouard Manet) had little or nothing to do with Ireland's ages-long fight for freedom. She was merely one of many painters whose works were fancied by the wealthy Dublin connoisseur and art dealer, Sir Hugh Lane. But Ireland's grievances against Great Britain are many, and not the least of them concern the French impressionist pictures that once belonged to Sir Hugh...
...last of the artists represented, Alden B. Christie '57, is the most accomplished painter. He has a good sense of design and fine knowledge of color and texture. The mechanical red flower (pictured) is the best picture of the show except perhaps for his other highly colorful, erupting abstraction. There is nothing particularly new in his style. He is nevertheless, very much in control and is already a capable abstractionist with rocking color...