Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hiroshige or the frozen waves of Hokusai. In Kadohata's novel of the '60s, a Japanese American redefines ukiyo as the Western U.S., a place of "gas station attendants, restaurants, and jobs we depended on, the motel towns floating in the middle of fields and mountains." Kadohata has a painter's eye, and her narrator's scroll is filled with scrupulously detailed portraits -- of her tyrannical grandmother, of herself and her lovers and, memorably, of unassimilated migrant workers, like "animals migrating across a field . . . moving from the hard life just past to the life, maybe harder, to come...
...best- known living woman artist. She is only 60, but she was precocious, and her career has been long. Among women artists associated with abstract expressionism, she stands second only to the late Lee Krasner. You could never claim that she has Krasner's emotional range as a painter: pessimism, anger, every abrasive emotion are caught in some inner filter before they can reach Frankenthaler's canvases and muddy their obstinately sustained lyricism. She keeps up the mood of Apollonian pleasure so well that one may think of Edmund Wilson's satire The Omelet of A. MacLeish, whose hero...
...would, in certain ways, remain an abstract expressionist at heart, a painter who loved spontaneous gesture and the kind of unforeseen imagery that popped out of it. From the big red hand (of God?) that appears in Eden, 1956, to the shamelessly romantic sky space that hangs behind the lavender blobs of pigment in Sacrifice Decision, 1981, one sees traces of the surrealist ideas that had formed Pollock -- an openness to the kind of unsought private image that was generally barred from color-field painting. Frankenthaler disliked programs and was not a self-conscious avant-gardist...
GRANDMA MOSES. Cloris Leachman portrays the centenarian farmwife and primitivist painter in a one-woman tour, this week in Los Angeles...
...America's best-known woman painter sums...