Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything works fine until Anna bumps into a painter named Leo Cutter at a local Laundromat and, she confides, "my world ripped apart." What started out as a tale of female independence veers into romance. Leo awakens Anna to feelings she has never known before: "I became with him, finally, a passionate person." Besotted with her new lover, Anna does not notice that her daughter is being exposed to some unfamiliar experiences. When Leo stays ! over, casual nudity becomes the order of the night. On one occasion, the child comes to their bed while they are making love. On another...
...even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring -- a story, say, about a woman who breaks up with a boring painter and finds ethereal sex with a corporation lawyer. But such is not the stuff of which best sellers are now manufactured...
...initials "OK," like a brusque mark of approval, are scrawled in the corners of a few of the best paintings of our century. They belonged to Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the visionary Austrian painter whose career spanned seven decades and not a few places of exile. Born in the world of the Emperor Franz Josef, he died in that of Reagan and Thatcher, just before the expressionist revival of the '80s took hold. Recent years have seen major shows of such expressionist masters as Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, and now the 100th anniversary of O.K.'s birth is marked...
Perhaps it is time to amend the familiar high-modernist view of Rivera as a gifted painter deformed by the needs of propaganda. Sometimes his work was too openly didactic and coarse grained, too attached to populist stereotypes of love, comradeship, struggle and work. It offended the etiquette of alienation. Too bad--he was still an extraordinary painter, a lighthouse of vitality. Nobody could say Rivera kept a steady political line, but at least he was no ideologue; his socialism was instinctive and antitotalitarian, like Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including...
...Visual and Environemtnal Studies (VES)Department is often fertile ground foridiosyncratic cum artsy projects. One of thebetter ones was handed in by Guy M. LaCrosby '86.A smooth-singing member of the Krokodiloes,LaCrosby is also a painter. His thesis was aseries of 30 oil and acrylic works done over aperiod of eight months. "The point was to see howI could break free of standardized ideas of how topaint," says LaCrosby. In his series ofprogressively more and more abstract andexpressionistic works, La Crosby does just that...