Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STILL LIFES-Schweitzer, 958 Madison Ave. at 75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
...East African Airways flight 304 approached Zanzibar one day last week, a message flashed ahead: "It is I, the field marshal, who comes. Have my army and the press waiting." Zanzi-baris could not fail to recognize the unique style of John Okello, the messianic Ugandan house-painter-turned-revolutionary whose bloody anti-Arab coup put Zanzibar's black Afro-Shirazi Party in power two months ago. But all that awaited Field Marshal Okello was rejection...
...Painter Lindner grew up in the era of Brecht's social satire, of Max Beckmann's razor-sharp realism, of the street-fighting Weimar Republic, where a mark was worth less than a match...
...magnifying glass to capture their curvy novelty. He roughs out his ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...
Fauves (or wild beasts, from a critic's derisive quip). The philosophy of painting that both groups followed was best summed up by an 1890 dictum of Theoretician and Painter Maurice Denis: "A picture, before being a horse, a nude, or some kind of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order." Although neither the Nabis nor the Fauves entirely abandoned the impressionist lessons of analyzing the fleeting scans of colored light rebounding from landscape, they flattened their tableaux and added vigorous, if vague and personal, symbolism to their work. In effect, they were...