Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, authorities established that "Adams" was Stephen F. Soliah, 27, the brother of Kathleen. A sometime house painter, Soliah was arrested at the apartment and charged with harboring fugitives from the law. The FBI was also trying to locate Kathleen Soliah, who had been living in the Morse Street apartment, and another sister, Josephine, who was thought to have been involved with the group...
...less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman to work in England since Van Dyck. The last modern painter to affect John's work was Paul Gauguin, whose flat, hieratic patterning was echoed in decorative figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life, Ida the wife...
...evidence that he preserves on magnetic tape cannot be trusted. The reporter/narrator sees that this is true for himself, too, when late in the book he launches into an earnest inquiry--unanswered--of whether or not one of his characters infiltrated a hospital by dressing up as a painter. The reporter gives up, acknowledging that the story that began as a statement of fact is no longer reducible to fact, no longer trustworthy...
Spassky's problems pale alongside those of Soviet Dissident Painter Edward Zelenin, who wants to emigrate to France. Last week, a few days before the planned opening of an unauthorized showing in Moscow of "unofficial" art, Zelenin was arrested. Much luckier is Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakia's 18-year-old tennis star; as the U.S. Open Championships at Forest Hills ended last week, she defected to the U.S., explaining that in her Communist-run homeland, she did not enjoy the freedom to play tennis "whenever I want and wherever I want...
Amoral Pleasure. When Englishmen of Smith's generation (he is now 44) started looking to America, what caught their eye was less the painterly heroics of abstract expressionism than the "media landscape"-to borrow a phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness...