Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...
...relieved that it's over. I can't stay mad. I got a little tired of standing on a pedestal and preaching." This decision to move on was expedited by visits to Manhattan art galleries with his elder son, Thomas Reuben, 45, an abstract painter. Goldberg recalls the sculpture he saw there with undiminished astonishment. "Some of it was literally junk-old car parts, old tires. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can do better...
Chief visual researcher is Victor Vasarely, 56, a Hungarian who has lived in Paris since 1930. He lives as immaculately as he paints, speaks more like a physicist than a painter. Says he: "I do not like to use the word painting to describe my works; they are plastics." Then he asks: "What remains of the Muses, who inspired beautiful souls, under the hard light of biochemistry, genetics or bionics?" Answer: plastic art. Vasarely weaves zebra-ziggly patterns that actually seem to move on their white backgrounds...
...master has pupils that he has never even met. One is U.S. Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz (TIME, July 19). Another is Bridget Riley, 32, whose visual torments are on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Precise black and white herringbone lines constantly wriggle, peak and valley, in an embodiment of vertigo. Visitors have become nauseated and dizzied by Riley's intense, chattering images that force their eyes to jerk to and fro. Not simply geometric tricks, they are larger than sheer optical delusions: orderliness clashes with chaos in the precarious proximity of black and white bands. They also...
...security officials opposed an exchange; they were still hopeful that Abel might one day turn canary and spill what he knew about Soviet intelligence. Abel, however, was a tough customer. A scholarly intellectual who spoke six languages fluently, dabbled in theoretical mathematics, and was an accomplished amateur painter and musician, he never admitted either his real name (Abel was a pseudonym) or even that he was a Red agent...