Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love life more now than I did as a boy, and I will go on loving it more until my last moments." The speaker was Painter Marc Chagall, who celebrated his 90th birthday last week. For the occasion, his friend and fellow Russian, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, helped to organize a gala concert in Nice, not far from Chagall's hillside home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Among the other performers who played or sang in his honor: Violinist Isaac Stern, Baritone Hermann Prey and Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Chagall attended the concert as well as a nearby exhibition...
...American painter is entitled to be considered the prodigal son of French modernism, it is Robert Motherwell. So a festive sense of homecoming rises from the retrospective of some 150 Motherwell paintings and collages being shown throughout the summer at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. At last month's opening, one could almost hear the squeals of the fatted calf on the block...
Glazunov's gesture was both in character and surprising to many Russians, for the Leningrad-born painter's career has whipsawed several times over the past two decades. In 1957 the artist outraged conservative Muscovites by exhibiting a nude portrait-a form of art long frowned on by the puritanical Soviet commissars. The figure was readily identifiable as his wife Nina. Another Glazunov show was closed in 1964 because of his unsparing depiction of ordinary Soviet life. After two years in deep disfavor, Glazunov began a comeback when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that...
Five of the six stolen paintings, including works by 19th century Impressionist Eugene Boudin, 17th century painter Gerrit Berckhyde and American landscape artists Twachtman and Gifford, were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum...
...curious thing is that, in hind sight, the once criticized swings between abstract and figurative in Diebenkorn's work seem not to matter. Beyond them, one sees the profound consistency with which he has pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp...