Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surged the opening-night black-tie throng. To celebrate the first evening of spring, girls wore their gayest dresses - flaring Pucci pajamas, metal-petaled above-the-knee A-lines, the newest see-through evening gowns. The occasion for all this festivity? The Modern's salute to a painter who has been dead 114 years, Joseph M. W. Turner, the 19th century romantic saint who so believed in communion with nature that at the age of 66 he had himself lashed to the mast of a ship while crossing the English Channel so that he might the better observe...
Soapsuds & Whitewash. Turner, who in his own lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
Morgan! This wildly offbeat black comedy from Britain, adapted by Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie...
Bright Vision. Seurat's The Watering Can, which Paul Mellon presented to his wife as a Christmas present, is a vibrant testimony to the pleasure that the painter found in contemplating his father's garden outside Paris. Says Art Historian John Rewald: "Seurat welcomed the opportunity for small studies on the play of light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first...
Died. Victor Brauner, 62, French surrealist painter, a Rumanian occultist's son who painted a portrait of himself with a damaged eye in 1932, lost an eye for real in a brawl six years later, thereafter turned out scores of intense, unnerving works filled with misshapen human figures characterized by outsized, haunting eyes; of cancer; in Paris...