Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American art world is full of young prodigies these days, none of them quite as convincing as its formerly young one, Frank Stella. It was in 1970 that Stella, at 33, became the youngest painter ever to be given a retrospective by New York City's Museum of Modern Art. To survive the envy and the scrutiny it brought, one needed the balance of a downhill racer, the skin of an alligator and the irony of Groucho Marx. Stella had all of these things...
...retrospective of Stella's prints, accompanied by a full catalogue by Art Historian Richard H. Axsom, is on view at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art until mid-March; it then tours American museums through 1986. It shows, among other things, how a painter can go from mediocrity to real importance as a printmaker if, and only if, he gets the right help from the right people. Making prints is a collaborative art, and the job of a master printer is to show a painter what is possible...
With their splashes of strong color and rectilinear features, they look like the canvases of a painter. In fact, the pictures are a new form of art, of the high-tech kind. Photographed from 440 miles out in space, they are views of the earth by the U.S.'s newest and most versatile earth-observing satellite, a multieyed robot called Landsat 4. Launched last July, it has been faithfully circling the globe, swinging from pole to pole and back again once every 98.9 minutes, taking electronic shots of every spot on the planet, except a small region around...
...parents. In a family, each member exists in the eye of the beholder. Since each person's vision differs, the illusions of a lifetime may be stripped away in bruising and bracing moments of revelation. Isn't this precisely what one expects a fine portrait painter...
DIED. Ben Benn (né Rosenberg), 98, Russian-born painter who assimilated modern artistic trends into a style of prodigal buoyancy; in Bethel, Conn. Benn, who came to the U.S. as a teenager, delighted in the urgency of the senses, of colors and surfaces, which he celebrated in long, loose, singing brush strokes...