Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOME obscure sense that his life was meant to go crosswise and be led in defiance of nature rather than in the easy expression of it." So speaks I rank Harland, an intense young painter growing up in Australia in David Maloul's latest novel. Harland's Hall Acre. The book spans the pre Depression to post World War II ears and details I rank's life and struggle to succeed...
...Isthmus Theater, a collaboration of six actors, a musician, painter, writer, director, and production staff, will create plots, improvise their staging in rehearsal and home them down to a polished performance repertoire...
...Westphalian mother and a father who owned one of Europe's largest dairy companies, young Karl grew up in the countryside of Schleswig-Holstein, taught by tutors. When he was twelve, his mother went to Hamburg to inroll him in art school. Karl wanted to be a portrait painter, but the art school director pointed out that "your son isn't interested in art, he's only interested in clothes." Lagerfeld promoted this shortcoming into a virtue by turning quickly to fashion design. At 16, he entered a design competition and won. Another winner was also...
...order to bask in "the serious moonlight." But Bowie has more disguises than a chameleon, and in his new 20-minute video for the song Blue Jean, from his soon-to-be-released album Tonight, Bowie assumes two roles. Sometimes he is Lord Byron, sometimes he is a sign painter named Vic, vainly trying to convince his girlfriend that he and the randy aristocrat are buddies. Seems like old times, but the period is mid-20th century. "Blue Jean is a '50s-style short," explains Bowie. "This is where videos are going...
HOSPITALIZED. Salvador Dali, 80, eccentric Spanish surrealist painter who in recent years has lived as a recluse in his castle near Cadaqués, in Catalonia; for surgery to treat severe burns received when his canopied bed caught fire; in Barcelona...