Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...garden became an exquisitely balanced artifact: rose arbors, willows, iris beds, raked paths, wisteria, a Japanese bridge and-most rewarding of all to the painter-ponds and water lilies. For the last 20 years of Monet's life, his "harem of nature," as Art Historian Kirk Varnedoe elegantly calls it, needed the services of six gardeners. After his death it began to decay. By 1966, when Monet's only surviving son-the reclusive Michel-died, the place had been closed to visitors, a shambles of rank growth and silted-up ponds. Recently, with a large grant from...
DIED. Richard Lindner, 76, German-born painter whose brassy, cartoon-like and often sinister depictions of women had the bite of Brecht and the machine-like surface of Léger; in Manhattan. Lindner, a Jew, escaped the Nazis by fleeing to France and then to the U.S., where he worked as an illustrator until his own work became successful in the 1960s. His favorite subject-woman-he saw as "bursting her corsets like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting...
...star. The City Ballet means Balanchine; company dancers, however superb, are the embodiments of his imagination. Says one Balanchine-trained performer: "It's like a painter who needs red, blue and yellow. Gelsey was red. She was the material for his choreography." After six years under Balanchine, Gelsey felt that she could do more. Says she: "I knew that I could not extend myself in the New York City Ballet." The question was, how to make the break...
CHATEAUBRIAND by George D. Painter...
Across the ocean, Chateaubriand was less successful. Few Americans had heard of him in his own century; today the English-speaking world tends to associate the name with an expensive steak dish (created by a chef during Chateaubriand's brief sojourn as ambassador to England). British Biographer George Painter attempts to resurrect the legend by resuscitating the man. Author of a highly acclaimed and exhaustively researched biography of Proust, Painter has produced the first part of a projected three-volume study. Like its predecessor, it promises to be a model of organization and insight...