Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Painter Alex Katz's subtle and delicate cover portrait perfectly records the rare qualities of John Updike: never jaded, always new, alive, intelligent and marvelously controlled...
...idea of a uniform corporate look originated in Germany before World War I. Its pioneer was AEG, the nationwide electric company, which began as a manufacturer of light bulbs, soon made electric appliances and, by 1928, controlled mines, railroads, rolling mills and airplane plants. Peter Behrens, a painter, graphic artist and architect, who also gained a reputation as a designer of type faces and industrial products, created AEG's distinct, although by now somewhat antiquated rendition of its initials...
Realist painting is now such an accepted fact of American art that one almost forgets how many of its best practitioners were once abstract painters, converted in midcareer. Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Tillim, Alfred Leslie, William Bailey: they all came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the change not from opportunism-15 or 20 years ago, practically no collectors or museums were exempt from the tyranny of abstract art-but out of a sense of lost engagement with the physical world and a hunger to recomplicate the game. Yet the past leaves its genetic code...
...door. I think only someone with no imagination can imagine him." One would like to read this as an equivalent to Mozart's A Musical Joke or dialogue from the theater of the absurd. In fact, the German-born author, 66, is best known as a painter and playwright with an intellectual kinship to Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco...
This sense of dislocation is deepened by the knowledge that William Wharton is the pseudonym of an obscure, publicity-shy American painter who served with the Army in World War II. How much of the book is autobiography? Probably a good deal. Generally, the more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing...