Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forgotten American painter is rediscovered in New York...
...formality, "I leave for the great beyond." He posted it, went to his room and swallowed an overdose of veronal. Thus, at the age of 55, died Patrick Henry Bruce, aesthete, Virginia dandy, misfit and expatriate, a direct descendant of Patrick Henry and one of the most interesting minor painters of early modernism. In Paris, where he lived for 30 years, Bruce had helped Matisse set up his art school. He was a friend of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, admired by Duchamp and the Steins. As a painter, he had the kind of precise, narcissistic talent-Alfred Stieglitz is said...
...painter set down his toolbox on the sidewalk near City Hall long enough to say he is "dubious" about national health insurance...
Picking up his toolbox and striding off down Mass. Ave., the painter threw back one more caution--"You never know what I'll do when I get in there and actually see the question," he said...
JOAN DIDION approaches writing like an impressionist painter. She places small dots quietly, precisely, to form distinct images. But step back from the painting, and the scene blurs. It is as if she washed her canvas with color, softening the detail, leaving an intense but somehow fleeting emotional moment. Like the Impressionists, she seldom makes judgements, preferring to let her images capture and sway the reader...