Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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African art is created not for museums or living rooms but for the community. Its function is fourfold, says Elimo Njau, a Tanzanian Lutheran painter. Art "makes Christianity African," provides a new context for worship, stimulates devotion and teaches the meaning of the Bible through imagery. Many works are signed collectively; others are anonymous. At Sims Chapel, Zaire's oldest Baptist church, even Sunday school children played their part: their rude drawings provided the basis for the chapel's stained- glass windows...
...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale of rich kids. Two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...
Papandreou has not testified before investigators, though he vehemently denies any involvement in what he calls a "conspiracy aiming to hurt Greece." But investigators have yet to hear from the central figure in the case, George Koskotas, 34, a onetime New York house painter who vaulted to power as the multimillionaire owner of the Bank of Crete. Now jailed in Massachusetts on a variety of charges leveled just before he fled Greece last November, Koskotas is facing extradition to answer accusations of looting his own bank...
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...