Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style is equally traditional, and he finds it most unfair that critics who admire his caricatures turn against his watercolors for the same reason. Says he: "It is quite all right to refer to Degas as being 'derived' from Ingres, but if you mention a contemporary painter as being 'derived' from Degas, it is an insult...
Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...
...Meanwhile, they will leave a record of their comments on the generation gap, their values, a personal account of what they loved most. Set down by Kate, this testament is liveliest when it reflects Marya Mannes' own penchant for high-class invective. During their sex talks, the painter howl-, "Don't tell me the sexual revolution was made by those pre-nubile, fur-bearing match-sticks...
...FESTIVAL. Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe. Award-winning portrait of the Welsh poet. Program includes recordings of his own readings, as well as interviews with his close friends Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and Painter Mervyn Levy. Repeat...
Armed with house painter's brushes and paints (he could afford no better), he labored with endless preliminary sketches and interminable revisions to build a series of carefully thought out, tense compositions. They were, of course, meant to look as though they had been stroked impetuously on the canvas in a matter of minutes. Said he: "The final test of a painting is: Does the painter's emotion come across?" To be sure that his did, he left his painting surfaces an intricate jumble of spatters, strokes and corrections...