Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president of Harvard and editor of the Ladies Home Journal, turned down some photographs of Diaghileff Russian Ballet dancers offered him for publication in the magazine, because the dancers' skirts exposed their knees. He finally published them in the January 1916 issue, after he arranged with an air brush painter at a cost of $600 to lower the skirts a few inches below their knees. Despite changing time Harvard has done little to take cognizance of the changed situation. It lets young men and women wrestle with problems of the sexual and emotional relationships they face while they study Plato...
DIED. Julian Levi, 81, painter and teacher whose work drifted from conventional seascapes to semi-abstract scenes; of a heart attack; in New York City...
Holland in the 17th century was a painter's dream, where art was bought and sold in the public marketplace. Collecting was popular among the middle classes, and it was not rare to find paintings throughout the rooms of farm houses or in the local bakery. The Dutch favored landscapes because they were familiar, and most 17th century masters away from allegorical subjects. The universal demand for art prompted a great outgoing of works, and it is little wonder that historians have been slow at sorting out the artists While Ruisdael has been one of the neglected landscapists...
DIED. Ben Nicholson, 87, British painter whose abstracted images of still lifes and landscapes formed the main link between English art and the continental cubist-constructivist tradition; in London. Born into an artistic and moneyed family, he began as a realistic painter before developing an abstract geometric style...
...signs that he was right after all - as preludes to the end of history itself, the millennium. What distinguished him from other mystagogic nuts, however, was his talent as an artist. On the evidence of this show, he was far and away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together...