Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Historian Martin Friedman points out in his catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation of detail forces us to reflect on process-how they were made, why they need to carry so much information. They are conceptual art, of a kind: Idea before Painting. What other realist painter comes near this minimalist harshness? Close's images pay absolute homage to the power of an overriding system; they might have been done on autopilot...
...club also elected Christina A. Spaulding '84 vice-president. Spaulding defeated Richard W. Painter...
DIED. Alfred Jensen, 77, Guatemalan-born painter whose lushly colored, checkerboard-patterned paintings were inspired by abstruse mathematical theories and the architecture of ancient civilizations; of cancer; in Livingston...
...perhaps self-hate. After achieving degradations close to madness, Newlove stopped drinking. In 1970 he published The Painter Gabriel, a novel whose subject, fresh language and touching exuberance reminded some critics of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. Generous praise greeted his second novel, Leo & Theodore, a picaresque about the bawdy adventures of Siamese twins growing up near Lake Erie, the author's home turf. This book and its sequel, The Drunks, were revised and republished as Sweet Adversity...
Outside the major cities in the smaller towns of Castile and Andalucia, one finds the traditional Spanish character most intact. Toledo, 70 miles south of Madrid, is a town dominated by the shadow of El Greco, the expatriated Cretan painter who adopted the town as his home. Toledo may be the most visited small town in Spain, but it is also a microcosm of Spanish history, art, and architecture...