Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STEPHEN GREENE-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. "There is always something terrible happening in a beautiful world," says Greene. As a figurative painter he showed it by placing live bodies in coffins. Now he abstracts the figure, with a dismembered limb or an amorphous heap of flesh leaves only the sense of the human presence. Recent works, flooded with clear uncluttered color, and drawings. Through...
ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze, as well as Paris scenes. One hundred works cover 49 years. Through...
MODEST CUIXART-Bonino, 7 West 57th. Spanish Painter Cuixart mixes his own concoction of materials, juxtaposes baroque designs with flesh-colored cubist construction. Sensuous red and black lines speak of darkness and calamity. Through...
GUGGENHEIM- Fifth Ave. at 89th. The cities in which Van Gogh lived are landmarks in his style. His nephew's collection (120 works) offers a unique opportunity to follow the painter's path. Leaving the bleak peasantry of Nuenen (The Potato Eaters) for Antwerp and Paris, his palette brightens. When he reaches Aries in the south of France it bursts into the brilliant light of high noon (Sunflowers, The Harvest, his own Yellow House). Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers-sur-Oise, there painted skies deepening with twilight. Through June...
GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Cir cle at 59th. A mammoth exhibition of the late Russian-born painter, Pavel Tchelit-chew (through May 24); a comprehensive survey of Pre-Raphaelite painting that includes Founders William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; also, a 50-work showing of French Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle who, before his death in 1929, did 21 agonized studies of Beethoven, some of them on view. Both through...