Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fellows, a group of graduate students who were allowed to pursue their studies without worrying about Ph.D. requirements,* Schlesinger plunged into research on the Age of Jackson. In 1940, he also plunged into marriage. His bride was Marian Cannon, daughter of a Harvard Medical School physiologist and now a painter of children's portraits. In 1941 his studies yielded a series of lectures on Jacksonian democracy that became the nucleus for the book that later made him famous...
History as Machine Gun. Larry Rivers, 42, is the closest thing to an academic 19th century historical painter that the avant-garde can boast. Back in the heyday of abstract expressionism, he did a takeoff on Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, attempting, as he put it, "to paint its drama, pageantry, spectacle and absurdity without political bias...
...refuse to draw the line between flat painting and three-dimensional structures," says Wesselmann. "I'm aware of the differences between real and imi tation, but I don't attach much significance to the distinction. A painter from Belgium was up to my studio and thinks my works have to do with capitalism because I use real products. Not so; it's really an affirmation of the whole world...
...Like a painter, Antonioni uses the frame of the picture for his effects. When Corrado leaves Giuliana, he simply walks out of the frame. The camera continually moves off the characters and onto the landscape. At the very end, Giuliana and her son disappear into the lower right hand corner while Antonioni gives us a perfect still shot of the factory. In this way, the director is constantly making us aware that the frame seperates what we can see from what we cannot...
Antonioni shot most of Th Red Desert with a telephoto lens, using various degress of magnification to achieve just the amount of flatness and focus that he wanted at any given moment. Antonioni, the consumate film-painter, has manipulated every device of film technology to assure that each tiny smudge will help create the exactly correct impression. He has challenged us to develop, not only our aesthetic, but our human sensitivity as well...