Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abstract painter cannot draw upon the history of art as a foundation for his painting, according to Stella. "It is assumed that the justification for present art must come from the greatness of the past, found generally in the Renaissance," said Stella...
When the artist surveys abstraction, however, the painter may be surprised how the development of abstract picturality can be found in 16th-century painting, with its utilization of form to create space, Stella explained...
...which would have given a rarefied touch to Coward's flight of fancy. Katherine Ferrance as Gilda is appropriately sleek, but one cannot believe that a character who doesn't know what to do with her own arms and legs can skillfully manipulate other people. Richard Council as the painter Otto is a bit too heavy and straightforward, he says witty things, but his tone and presence lack the speed and guile that would let him survive this "measured skirmishing" Kenneth Meseroll as the playwright Leo comes closest to convincing, but even he lacks that confidence in his own fascination...
Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable "series" which made him famous. But he has recovered what he chiefly sought in art-the pageant of moving light...
Picasso. The last name alone is enough to sum up 20th century art. The Spanish-born painter went through several stages of development, each of which outstripped the lifetime output of other artists. His creative force was fierce and incomparable. The final assessment of him came only when an enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqu...