Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrangement and laid out with near architectural precision, despite their fatty paint, are like rebuses or allegories, swarming with references to movies and their auteurs. Peter Frank, the Guggenheim's guest curator, who has a marked taste for indirect and elliptical art, has also included an interesting painter from New Orleans, Jim Richard, 37. Richard's deadpan views of Southern suburbia do not justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about...
...large group of major paintings by Van Gogh, mostly from his time in Aries and St.Rémy. They are backed up with an extraordinary selection of some 30 Gauguins and many remarkable paintings by the "disciples"-including Bernard, who turns out, like Anquetin, to have been a painter of real originality who can now be seen without Gauguin's shadow across him. This ambitious curatorial effort is the work of the Canadian art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, and it is without doubt the most visually ravishing and intellectually satisfying museum study of early French modernism to be seen...
...work of the painter will be something like painting by compartments, analogous to cloisonne ..." If impressionism had banished the boundary line from art, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues put it back with a vengeance...
Françoise Gilot, 59, painter who was once Pablo Picasso's mistress, on the difference between Picasso and Henri Matisse: "Matisse was as great as his art. That was not the case with Picasso. If you had to be around him much, you suffered...
...crowned heirs of Banquo, foretold by the three witches, march with a stately heraldic tread across a narrow catwalk that spans the upper rear stage like a suspension bridge. In these and other scenes, the director groups and separates her players with a painter's eye Individual playgoers may cavil at some of the liberties that Caldwell takes with Shakespeare, but few could deny that she represents a fresh, colorful and audacious directorial presence in the theater. -By T.E. Kalem