Word: painterly
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Perhaps the most gifted of the eight artists is the painter Hugh O'Donnell. His large, crammed canvases owe something to Frank Stella in their controlled decorative fullness. They also allude to Japanese Momoyama screens, and that is no accident since O'Donnell studied them while on a fellowship to Kyoto in the mid-'70s. The desire to activate every part of the surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured...
FRANK STELLA INFLUENCED Andre's desire to reduce art to its purest. Andre and Stella both attended Andover, but first met in New York in the '50s. Andre was impressed by Stella's line paintings, in which the painter restricted himself to an extremely limited visual vocabulary...
...following a stroke; in Camposampiero, Italy. Seven years after losing her father on the Titanic in 1912, Peggy came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared in 1940 that her Dalis, Mirds and Picassos were not worth the effort...