Word: painterly
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...redoubtable Sir John Pope-Hennessy, formerly chairman of the department of European painting at the Met and one of the great scholars of the Italian Renaissance. No doubt the Pope, as Hennessy is known, will be happy: when he was 23, he wrote his own book on the Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo...
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Formica and Celotex are among the odd materials employed by this enigmatic but important American painter and sculptor. Through...
...probably best remembered for the photographs he took of his friends, including Joyce, Hemingway and Picasso. Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray (Abbeville; 348 pages; $55) reproduces these pictures, of course, but much else as well. Ray flourished in Paris during the 1920s and '30s as a painter and a maker of often whimsical objects, such as a flatiron with a row of tacks attached. Photography was almost an afterthought, a means of recording his sometimes perishable constructions. But Ray's camera also captured an era -- when art belonged to Dada -- that this book scrupulously assembles and preserves...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
Diebenkorn, 66, has spent nearly all his working life in California; but the time is long past when he was regarded in New York as a California artist, with the slight condescension that implies. He is, quite simply, one of the best painters America has ever produced. He began as an abstract painter, making organic, landscape-like images in an idiom related to abstract expressionism; one of his inspirations, though in the end an adversary one, ! was Clyfford Still, a colleague at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late '40s. Then in 1956 he turned...