Word: painterly
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...million price was the largest ever paid for an American painting. But what would no doubt please Painter Samuel F.B. Morse more is the fact that his canvas Gallery of the Louvre has been plucked from dusty storage at Syracuse University, and will now be displayed with due fanfare by its new owner, Daniel J. Terra, 71, at his two-year-old Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston, Ill. The painting was meant to be a sort of early-American effort at cultural packaging: 38 of the world's greatest masterpieces all on one canvas. Depicted, in remarkable...
DIED. Kenzo Okada, 79, Japanese-American painter and critically admired modernist who combined a gently mystical Oriental mood with a Western abstract style; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. One of the first Japanese artists to work in the U.S. after World War II, Okada often painted five canvases at once, using pieces of wood, rollers, fingers. And, he said, "of course, I also have brushes...
Though it is now the centerpiece of the Festival of Arts, the pageant started almost as an afterthought. The festival itself was launched in 1932 to publicize the work of Depression-hit Laguna artists. A year later, Painter John Hinchman hit on the idea of staging tableaux vivants, similar to the scenes mounted on Sundays in some Victorian parlors. The "stage" was a roped-off section of a street. As Salome holding the severed head of John the Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after...
...taming the illusion. Full-time Technical Director Carl Callaway, who has spent 38 of his 48 years working on the pageant, has mastered the art of creating an impression of flatness, the opposite of most canvas artists' aim. A brawny, cigar-chomping character who doubles as carpenter, electrician, painter and engineer, Callaway faces the major problem of lighting a show that is held after dark in a variety of weather conditions...
...revisionist view of his career is perhaps less radical than earlier ones. Here was a provincial man, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in 1541 in Crete, who by the age of 27 had attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During...