Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Picasso's penultimate mistress tells in bitterly frank detail of her nine turbulent years with the century's most extraordinary painter-genius...
...proud of our great city, and not only do we deny that Albright is "Chicago's painter laureate" but many of us detest his work. I personally was so sickened by his exhibit that if I had possessed a crayon at the time, I would have drawn a mustache on each ugly portrait. LAURA PUDELWITTS Chicago...
While the painter had clear ideas about his subject's countenance, the President already had his own judgment of the artist's work. There are two of Peter Kurd's paintings in the White House. One, called Rancheria, on loan from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, hangs opposite the President's bed-where it is "the first thing I see in the morning." President Johnson likes to think of it as a view of his own west-central Texas hill country, although it is a scene from Kurd's New Mexico...
...nation in this century has tormented itself as much as Germany. One war put it at odds with the world; a second war earned it incomprehensible guilt. German artists, though scorned by the Nazis, learned to turn the other cheek. The cheekiest was the late painter Max Beckmann, who wrote that he wanted to give "our fellow men a picture of their fate, and this can be done only if you love them." Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill could have supplied the words and music...
...already probed, as he put it, "beyond impressionism" and had become an unwitting prophet of the surrealism to come. More important, after many self-doubting years of dabbling at writing and moonlighting as a violinist, he declared during a Tunisian trip: "Color and I are one. I am a painter." Once he had wondered: "Am I God?" Now he was sure that his creative fire exceeded "white heat. In my work, I do not belong to the species, but am a cosmic point of reference...