Word: painterly
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DIED, llya Bolotowsky, 74, Russian-born painter and sculptor, who was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group; of injuries suffered in an accidental fall in an elevator shaft; in Manhattan. Bolotowsky was an abstractionist who worked with flat primary colors in geometric compositions. In 1936 he created one of the first abstract murals ever commissioned...
...paper, now scheduled to appear again in February, has been postponed because an advertiser withdrew its business. Richard W. Painter '84, Perspective editor, said yesterday. He declined to identify the advertiser. "It's not only the loss of this advertising but a general lack of funds." Jess A. Velona '83, president of HDC, said yesterday...
...paper's staff, which is currently forming a business board, is planning to apply for grants from about 20 organizations and to solicit advertising from political organizations and businesses, Painter said...
This is a misapprehension on the order of considering Picasso merely a Spanish painter, or Joyce a parochial Irish Catholic writer. The best British composers speak an international language-inflected, to be sure, by characteristic clipped accents and at times marked by a stiff-upper-lip emotional restraint-as surely as do the German Beethoven, the Italian Verdi, the Frenchman Debussy or the Russian Tchaikovsky: men who transcended the boundaries of their birth and made fellow countrymen out of the world's citizens...
Artists had drawn animals, of course, since the bisons of Lascaux. But Landseer was the only painter who ever became a court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...