Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carver's trade is as tedious as his art is exquisite, it turns out, and this time-consuming aspect of his craft has opened a deep rift between the decoy man and his colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only...
...carver labors under a marketing burden the painter does not have. According to Scott Beatty, a big, strapping accountant in Easton and president of this year's festival, "Anywhere you have a wall in your house, you have a place for flat art. But you have to think hard about where you're going to put a bird...
Throughout his long life, and for 150 years after his death, George Stubbs (1724-1806) was known as a horse painter. Never mind the Parthenon frieze, the Marcus Aurelius, the equestrian portraits of Verrocchio or Donatello, or any of the rest of the vast repertory of equine imagery in Western art: horse painting, like "sporting" art generally, tends to be seen as a minor style of aesthetic tailoring, shaped to reflect the blunt amusements of a class not much liked by connoisseurs. Painters like Sir Alfred Munnings, who filled canvas after canvas with accurate replications of poised fetlocks and lobb...
...Stubbs was not just an interesting minor artist but a thoroughly absorbing one who often rose to greatness-as well as the best horse painter who ever lived. And since the exhibition of his work that opened Oct. 17 at London's Tate Gallery-102 paintings along with 77 drawings and prints-will go, with some substitutions and deletions, to the Yale Center for British Art in February, American museumgoers will be able to test for themselves the feeling, now spreading in England, that Stubbs is to be ranked with Turner and Constable in English painting. Whether one feels...
...very, very bad" at drawing and says that "talent, unfortunately, is not hereditary." Nevertheless, Sophie Renoir, 20, a great-granddaughter of French Impressionist Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, is determined to express herself. Her chosen medium is film acting (well, her great-uncle is Film Maker Jean Renoir), and her credits include The Children Are Watching, with French Heartthrob Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great...