Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only painter who might be much at home in any Western city's modern museum is Oskar Rabin, an outcast painter who enjoys no official patronage at home. Rabin's four fantasy cityscapes are semiabstractions: a City and Moons balances glowing oval shapes against the dark grid of hazy architectural forms; an American Landscape shows giddy skyscrapers in a land he has never visited. Visions of London and Paris both depict painfully precise, oversized postage stamps (one with Queen Elizabeth) that boldly refute the perspective...
...William Zorach, sculptor, and Marguerite Zorach, his wife, painter and tapestry-maker...
MURIEL KALISH-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. New Yorker Muriel Kalish, 31, is a modern primitive painter, unschooled in art but gifted with a photographic memory. Her colors are happy, her composition curious, her intuition unerring in paintings furnished with wicker chairs, flowered wallpaper, braided rugs and, candid as can be, female nudes and fully dressed males. First showing. Through June...
...love it but followers of Schumann and Brahms are likely to find it crude and vulgar-"pleasure gas," a Viennese critic once called it. His mammoth tone poems-Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra-show him to be a peerless master of orchestral effect and a wizardly painter of tone color. But Strauss was the last man in a 400-year-old tradition of tonality, and it was his misfortune to work alongside the atonalists without sharing any of their discoveries. Halfway into the present century, he was widely dismissed as a souvenir of the last...
...weekends working instead of fun having. The business man who keeps Saturday office hours does not do it to catch up on his work, nor to impress his boss; he is hiding from failure as a fun haver. The weekend gardener trowels guilt into the soil; the Sunday painter paints his soul off-white...