Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the light-the shattering clarity that had seduced so many artists-Painter Marc Chagall in 1950 left Paris to live on the Riviera. Last week Chagall, now 79, said merci to the land of azure waters with a $2,000,000 gift: 17 major oils and 50 gouaches and watercolors, representing much of his last twelve years' work, which will be housed in a government-financed Chagall museum in Nice. When it is completed in 1968, the memorial will take its place beside the Riviera's three other museums dedicated to modern masters: Picasso...
...what his 17th century contemporary Descartes was to philosophy: a believer in reason above all. An architect with canvas, he organized his scenes like luminous lessons in logic, seeing structure where skin was and portraying fleshy maenads as marble caryatids. His discipline twice earned him the title of First Painter to the King of France - and the respect of every generation...
Carl Ruggles, D. MUS., composer and painter. As an artist as well as musician, you have truly earned the attribution "a 20th century Leonardo...
...cooking was on a par with painting, it was not necessarily first. At one memorable meal, prepared for Painter Edouard Vuillard and some close friends around 1897, Lautrec forced them away from the table after the cheese course and led them to the apartment of a friend. He pointed to a freshly painted Degas on the wall, exclaimed: "There is your dessert...
...Opium War in 1841. Hong Kong. The plague. War junks. Tongs. China clippers sailing on the tide (and on nearly every page). May-may, a Chinese concubine who gargles baby urine. Gorth Brock, a bastardo degenerado. Wolfgang Mauss. Shevaun. The priapic painter Aristotle Quance. Redhaired, green-eyed, sharkproof Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (Supreme Leader) of The Noble House, trader in poppies, mayhem...