Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances that would do credit to Giraudoux. Out standing is Michel Bouquet, pathetic yet loathsome as a pawky, balding bachelor who cannot believe his good fortune when a mysterious beauty comes to his shabby room with a bottle of strange-tasting liqueur. Scarcely less memorable is Charles Denner, a painter who poses Moreau as Diana the Huntress and gets an arrow in the back. Or Claude Rich as a womanizer who smirks curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror. Another director might have made the balcony scene...
...lack the revelatory authority of Weiss's earlier disorders and sorrows. Now in Sweden, he is no longer an innocent freshman questing, but rather a jaded graduate detouring. He revolves in typical refugee circles, begins to bed down casually, regards paternity indifferently, soon marries carelessly. Although still a painter, he has also started to dabble at writing -in Swedish-but he has yet to commit himself fully either to art or to his own life...
...Wallace; that is to say, she was trim, pretty, and hid a faint smile. Gladys Roberts was wearing a styrofoam boater with Wallace stickers pasted on it, a red, white, and blue-striped blazer, a white blouse, a navy blue skirt, stockings, and loafers. She also carried a cardboard painter's bucket...
Joan MirÓ, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this...
...Russian-born, Brooklyn-raised painter has been enamored of abstraction ever since his G.I. bill studies in Paris. When he first attracted national attention in 1961 by winning an award at Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary...