Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American painter, is noted for drawing and other graphic techniques. He is best known, however, for his prolific murals in U.S. public buildings. During 1957-58, he gave his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard on the education and responsibilities of artists (published as "The Shape of Content...
Under a law passed in 1940, Polish-born Painter Beys Afroyim forfeited his U.S. citizenship by voting in a 1951 Israeli election. Not so, argued Afroyim all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week the court upheld him-and thereby made it possible, in effect, for Americans to hold dual citizenship...
Andrew Wyeth, L.H.D., painter. Your paintings are popular, but unyielding to popularization...
...D.LIT., author, painter...
...young "idealists" joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose eerie and deliberately vague and cryptic oil renderings of commonplace snapshot subjects, magazine and catalogue illustrations have elicited viewers' shudders and critical raves throughout West Germany, Switzerland and Italy...