Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...units of arithmetical progression. For instance: 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Dean systematically explores the stage space using the most basic configurations: circles of varying breadth, columns and lines, an occasional diagonal. Clarity, precision--some viewers would say transcendence. Like a minimalist painter, Dean discovers meaning in subtle variations and trans-formations of repeated units. They are simple units immediately accessible to perception: one section consists of spinning, another of jumps...
...collection, as it were, is a group of scrolls and albums by Tao'chi, a monastic scholar and painter who eventually renounced Buddhism and became a professional painter in the metropolis of Yang-chou. His "Echo" is a definitive understatement: on the left, a mountain made of brushstrokes swirls up out through clouds (also defined by the texture of the stroke). A tremulous, finely-drawn bridge spans the silent gap between this huge statement and a smaller hill that echoes it. The echo is seen, heard and felt...
...Manhattan's Pace Gallery (through Feb. 12), Dine once again deals with a commonplace object-a bathrobe, which he has painted over and over again with the persistence of Monet inspecting a lily pond. But the mood has changed. At 41, Dine has become a more somber painter, and a more ambitious...
...writer identified himself with that other 19th century comet, Edgar Allan Poe ("not a kindred spirit but a twin"), whose work he introduced to France. Indeed, Baudelaire made more money from his Poe translations than from his own poems, essays of self-scrutiny (Intimate Journals) and art criticism (The Painter of Modern Life...
...octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that...