Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning. And in his spare time he has just finished writing a play in Spanish entitled The Burial of Count Orgaz, based on El Greco...
...wrist and a ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...
...built this chapel to atone for 80 years of sins," says Foujita. He certainly gave himself opportunities to accumulate them. Descendant of a warlike samurai family, the Foujiwara (meaning "wild fields of wisteria"), the painter hobnobbed with Picasso, Apollinaire, Isadora Duncan and the catlike artists' model Kiki. Alexander Calder once exhibited his miniature circus at Foujita's soirees...
...does not always win such praise from O.K., as he signs his works. A far more personal statement is a recent oil, Saul and David, full of the swirl of clashing colors and impetuous brushstroke. Explains the painter: "I painted David next to the angry old man. The old man is biting his teeth because it's over." Then slapping his knee with vigor, Kokoschka adds, "He is furious at being...
...accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...