Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first memory is of the brightness of light, light all around," the painter wrote as she was approaching her 90s. She had been nine months old, sitting among white pillows outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great...
...then, she had to make her way in a world more prudish than our own, and one infinitely less receptive to the seriousness of women artists. One way to resist such pressures was to emphasize the formal and botanical over the symbolic and sexual. "I am not a woman painter," she once declared in a famous statement; her life's work was a sustained manifesto against second- class aesthetic citizenship...
...young artist who has been working on the old poet's portrait. Horace does not like to see his womenfolk, particularly his beloved daughter Maudie, 16, in such raffish company. So he does the only sensible thing and forbids wife and child to receive the gossip and painter at home again...
...evidence of this show, that Kline possessed neither the innovative powers of Jackson Pollock, nor the ramping, risky intensity of Willem de Kooning, nor the reflective pictorial intelligence that distinguishes the best work of Mark Rothko or Robert Motherwell. But he was still, when on form, a first-rate painter, well worth scholarly attention. So why have we seen so little of him? Because, it seems, the common curatorial view is that Kline was a backup man, not an innovator. This has chilled the interest of museums, if not the market. So, until a fuller retrospective comes along--this...
...caught in a trap. Cornish is a painter of the old world. The spirit that motivates him is meaningless in this world, so Cornish escapes by painting in the medieval style and becomes a forger...