Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painter and illustrator residing in San Francisco, Linenthal says a visit to his mother's hometown of Chapel Hill, N.c., helped explain her passion...
...writer can write, a painter can paint, but an actor cannot act unless there is an audience," Lemmon told the Eliot audience...
...standing on a milk crate, how to manipulate a large, 3-chip Sony studio camera. In the computer-graphics room, instructor Deena Segot will be critiquing an advanced camper's animation created in Macromedia Director. Later the same day, Segot will have beginner students draw butterflies in Fractal Design Painter. Like butterflies, children need freedom. So each day, campers can socialize outdoors until it's time to go home...
Perhaps the most interesting painter to reflect this mood was John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), who specialized in eye-fooling, hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...
...people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny. He identified with scientists, many of whom he knew, and in a portrait of a surgeon, he produced what many regard as America's greatest 19th century painting, The Gross Clinic...