Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tickets were sold at just $4 a head that the gates eventually were thrown open to all. Being a 5-ft. 3-in. feather in the wind, Benoit found that just 50 jostling women caused a terrific congestion. She hurried into the clear under a delightful painter's hat with the bill brushed back. About three miles out, Benoit ran away completely and was astonished when no one kept up. "I didn't complain," she said. "I just sort of followed the yellow brick road...
...great pity, seeing that he can work with broad canvasses. In his reflexive fear of being thought simple-minded or today. Mailer is reduced to "convictionless" scene painting, to sentimentality, and to clutching at other people's semi-coherent and mysterious goodness. Again, Norman Mailer is like a painter who can depict but not name his subject; it is no surprise that he had trouble with the title. None of this obscures the fact that the novel is good, even great. But the spectacle of a talented writer serving up musty decadence is a distressing...
...murals and lithographs depicted the sere, light-drenched landscapes and unworldly local personalities of his native New Mexico; of complications of Alzheimer's disease; in Roswell, N. Mex. A West Point dropout who studied with N.C. Wyeth and later married the illustrator's daughter Henriette, also a painter, Kurd was a World War II combat artist for LIFE. During the 1950's and '60s he painted more than a dozen covers for TIME, the most notable being that of President Lyndon Johnson as 1964's Man of the Year, which Hurd did jointly with...
DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...
...famous and obscure. Apart from Venice itself, this is the main reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief: here the wearisome traits of much contemporary art, its honking rhetoric, its unconvincing urgency, its arid "appropriations" of motifs, are left...