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Word: painterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, and seven years later he sold TIME his first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete a portrait in seven to 15 hours, usually working from a photograph. A realistic painter, Chaliapin was an implacable and voluble foe of modern abstract art: "I want a linoleum design on the floor, not in a picture on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Columbus, the capital of Ohio, calls itself the All-American City. It has indeed produced such All-American institutions as Ohio State and Woody Hayes; James Thurber, who migrated to The New Yorker; John Glenn, of space and the U.S. Senate; George Wesley Bellows, the early 20th century painter-lithographer, who moved east; as well as the Accounting Hall of Fame, which never said "Goodbye, Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Saut | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...during an era in which unemployment among whites was virtually nonexistent and approached 20% among blacks in urban areas. Employers have long made a practice of hiring Africans for jobs theoretically reserved for whites because no white applicants were available; the job in question would simply be listed as "painter's assistant" rather than painter, or "woodworker" instead of carpenter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Labor Reforms | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Kitaj's idea of a "more social art" has little to do with social realism. But he is the last history painter, and his enterprise is to see history through the lens of other media-books, photos, snatches from film and similar "raw" sources-combined in a kind of painted collage, the visual equivalent of spinning the radio dial and hearing snatches of different broadcasts on different wavelengths punctuated by silence and bursts of static. The work responds to an edgy sensibility: Europe of the '20s and '30s, and Northern Europe at that, the dictators' playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last History Painter | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...from Goya and Velásquez as well as from the 20th century. This ability to suggest cultural continuity in the midst of a general malaise may be the final rea son why Kitaj's art haunts a corner of one's mind that no other living painter has contrived to occupy. -Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last History Painter | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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