Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a precise, scientifically honest approach, Daubigny was criticized by some of the best brains of his times. In 1861, the French author Théophile Gautier tut-tutted Daubigny, said that his paintings were just "rough drafts." He continued: "It is really too bad that this landscape painter, who possesses such a true, such a just, and such a natural feeling, is satisfied by an impression and neglects details to this extent." Scornfully, Gautier noted that the brushwork was "merely spots of color juxtaposed...
Died. Rico Lebrun, 63, Italian-born West Coast painter and sculptor, a wistful, wiry Neapolitan whose lifelong preoccupation with the grotesque and the macabre led critics to think of him as a 20th century Goya, produced a savage, semi-abstract body of work illustrating grim themes classic and modern, from Dante's Inferno and the Crucifixion to Dachau and Buchenwald; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Great Criminal. When he turned his back on business and family to become a fulltime painter, he announced the decision with a typically self-conscious flourish: "Oh, yes, I am a great criminal. What does it matter! Michelangelo was too!" He exchanged his stockbroker's black business suits for a fisherman's blue jersey and high boots, retreated to cultivate a new role-"the austere heretic," in Pissarro's words, who "pontificated and was followed by a train of young...
BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. Watercolor was the first medium that Joseph Mal-lord William Turner attempted and he continued in it long after he became England's great romantic painter. This major exhibition of his watercolors, lent by the British Museum, embraces his genius from the disciplined draftsmanship of his student days (the earliest was drawn at 14) to later seascapes so impressionistic in color and spare of design as to border on the abstract. Through...
...strength: its carefully crafted machines-which cost up to 10% more than other Japanese makes-and its network of 700 stores in Japan, each manned by a skilled mechanic. The man who created this aggressive, sports-minded company is no glowing Mantle Sensitive and fragile, Hiraki is an accomplished painter of intricate Chinese-ink tableaux, likes to design Japanese gardens, and owns a world-famous collection of Japanese wood prints. He works a leisurely day, avoids all strenuous activity. His favorite sport, he admits, is lounging around, gazing at his collection of prints...