Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only reason Turner was a better painter than the others was that he got up earlier...
...lean, silver-haired Mississippian, Diffrient, 55, has always disdained the merely stylish, devoting most of his professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during...
...nuance, while leaving his master's tyrannous physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn of a social Eden-is to think of pollen and silk, not flesh. Watteau was a great painter of the naked body, but his nudes tend to privacy and reflection. They are completely unlike Rubens' magniloquent blond wardrobes. He seems, for this reason, the more erotic artist...
Because his scenes were bathed in an aura of privilege, many people still think of him as a court painter. Nothing could be further from the truth. After he died, Watteau's work appealed irresistibly to the high and mighty of Europe: Frederick the Great of Prussia had no fewer than 89 paintings by or in the manner of Watteau in his palaces at Potsdam, Sans Souci and Charlottenburg. Alive, Watteau had no time for courts, and little access to them anyway. He sensibly preferred the theater, whose troupes and characters he painted so often, shifting them from...
...looking into a gallery that sells paintings and mirrors. The paintings are dimly legible; the mirrors are black, reflecting little. Three backs are turned: a pink cascading dress on the left, a lady and a gentleman scrutinizing a painting on the right. The sense of absorption-of a painter spying on people looking at art -is extreme; and so is the feeling for material substance, quiet, glowing, meticulously wrought. On the far left, a portrait of Louis XIV is being lowered into its crate for shipment. This refers to the name of Gersaint's shop, Au Grand Monarque...