Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). "Catlin and the Indians," the life and works of George Catlin, famed painter of American Indians, with Bill Ryan as narrator...
...machinist's son, young Julio entered the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Arts at 15, evolved from naturalistic painter into op artist under the influence of the works of Klee, Mondrian and Vasarely. He emigrated to Paris in 1958 and two years later, with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards...
...very funny, he's literally the only painter who, lived in Switzerland who produced anything...
...Emil Nolde, though, a subject was to a painter "as the instrument he handles is to the musician." He said that "colors are my notes, which I use to form harmonizing or contrasting sounds and chords." He usually began a watercolor by working paint onto a wet piece of paper with a bit of cotton until the colors blended into one another. After the colors dried, he would study the composition to see what unexpected subjects it suggested to him, then outline them, a practice he referred to as "passive painting." Nolde said that "my best pictures always came...
...Culture. In Man on Horseback, one anonymous watercolorist was ignorant of the rules of perspective, but he was uninhibited in his use of color, filled all the available space with decorative plants and boughs. To capture the clipper ship's surge through the mountainous seas, another anonymous painter resorted to ritualistic formality, reminiscent of a Japanese print. Ironically, what spelled the death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost his own fresh...