Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where she grew up, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter is lured back to Toronto, where she grew up, by a retrospective showing of her works, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
...tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed mustache, that he could not be ignored. Armored in paradox, he was a household word rivaling Picasso in fame, at least in the eyes of a mass public that knew him as an eccentric first and a painter second...
Elaine is a painter based in British Columbia, "as far away from Toronto as I could get without drowning." Only a retrospective of her works lures her back. But the praise of young feminists seems ignorant or condescending, and the town's gleaming new facades have an even worse effect. "Underneath the flourish and ostentation," she decides, "is the old city . . . malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable. In my dreams of this city I am always lost...
This adamant adherence to his own artistic vision paralleled his egotism, which, even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...