Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Golub: painter Museum of Fine Arts, through...
Other artists who are expected to visit this year include actress Glenn Close, painter David Hockney, and composer Pierre Boulez, said Susan Bielinski, program coordinator...
...nothing earlier than 1961, so that one does not see the transition between the "commercial" artist Thiebaud was--doing cartoons, Rexall ads and Hollywood publicity sets in the 1940s--and the "fine" one he is. Still, this is the fullest look one has yet had at this quintessential California painter. The show will travel to other museums in California and the Midwest, finishing in Kansas City in the fall of 1986. It will not be seen on the East Coast, presumably because it lacks the factitious glamour that might commend it to such institutions as New York City's Whitney...
...buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing bag--and the literal work of the painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these work--and often they are little more than a graphic mannerism--they lend...
...family grew wine grapes in the Pyrenees. Simon was educated in Paris and then worked at becoming a painter. He served in the Spanish Civil War and later in the French cavalry. Captured by the Germans in 1940, he escaped and joined the French Resistance...