Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME...
...last week the new party line had at least partial approval from the greatest Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that...
...richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident...
...Ambassador, the Earl of Carlisle, wrote home from the Continent: "He made mee believe that nothing but good intentions and sincerity have been in his heart, which on my soul I think is trew, because in other things I finde him a reall man." Page to Painter. Rubens' success story had an early beginning. As a page in the house of the Countess of Lalaing, he learned the elaborate etiquette of baroque court life while still in his teens, then studied painting under the best Antwerp craftsmen of his day. At 23, a fluent Latin scholar and already...
...fingertips. In drawings such as his sketch for Daniel in the Lions' Den (left), he proved that he could infuse into classical and Biblical themes a new verve and power distinctively his own. Respectably married to the pretty daughter of a conservative Antwerp lawyer, and appointed court painter to the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands. Rubens so prospered that he finally complained to a friend: "To tell the truth. I am so burdened with commissions, both public and private, that for some years to come I cannot commit myself...