Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other major modern painter has less to tell us about the tensions of history and the facts of the 20th century than Giorgio Morandi; none, except Matisse, retired more completely from the "confrontational" role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...
...production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being presented. It had become a mausoleum." Controversy is nothing new for the flamboyant British-born director. In 1949 he produced a scandalous Salome-largely because of bizarre sets by Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali. He has set Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in what resembled an abandoned squash court, with the actors flying about on trapezes. Earlier this year, he staged Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with rugs as virtually the only props...
...fact, every writer and painter recalls the power of childhood, when the tumultuous variety of the real world is charged with miracles, when inanimate objects speak out, secret accomplices assume the forms of animals, and dreams are bigger than the night itself. But remembering and re-creating are different matters, and only a handful of artists can bring back the astonishments and textures of childhood. This season, the handful holds an unusually high proportion of works that manage the child's ability to render objects and emotions by drawing flat and seeing round...
...Painter Tom Wesselmann, like de Kooning before him, has refused to choose sides in the controversy between abstract expressionism and the new realism. Instead, his female nudes, often in monumental proportions, inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann...
...told, Roti's kin are paid $351,000 a year by the city. His daughter Rosemary Marasso is a mayoral press aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted...