Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet evenings at home. In fact, evening pants, designed and priced high by Pucci, Chanel and imitators, are almost intimidatingly chic in salons from San Francisco to New York, where no one sets them off with more distinction than Mrs. Denise Bouche, former Vogue editor and widow of Painter Rene Bouche...
Second, among its welter of practitioners, two painters have emerged as the undisputed eye-catchers: Robert Rauschenberg, 38, (TIME, Sept.18), who made off with first honors last summer at the Venice Biennale, and Jasper Johns, 34, pop's most painterly painter (opposite...
...other way around: the pictures are good but are dominated by Dora Vallier's text, which is a critical biography of satisfying dexterity and power. In the 50 years since his death, the life story of this Paris toll collector who quit his work to become a painter at the age of 40 has become fogged with hearsay and growing legend. Author Vallier penetrates to the basic facts of his life and establishes a firm chronology of his work. She is thus able to be explicit and detailed about the development, both in content and technique, of his entirely...
...Finest Hours is a skillfully assembled and frequently moving sketch of the magnificent statesman-warrior-historian-painter-orator-bully who turned 90 yesterday, Winston S. Churchill. The film has nothing to offer in the way of balanced evaluations of Churchill's place in world history. But it does provide some insight into the qualities of his life...
Thirteenth Street Promotion. Always precocious, Edith was 14 when she enrolled in Manhattan's National Academy of Design, began haunting Alfred Stieglitz' Intimate Gallery. On a trip to Paris, with her late husband, painter Samuel Halpert, she concluded that European artists had more money and respect than U.S. ones. A year later in 1926 she founded a gallery on 13th Street to help promote contemporary...