Word: painterly
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...famous Sunflowers, which are placed side by side for the first time. The earliest, oil on canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months later on a piece of a bolt of burlap bought for Arles by Gauguin. It is curiously muted and its authenticity...
...artist, it did not take long for the likes of Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Lee Krasner to enter into Glimcher’s circle of intimate acquaintances. Glimcher founded Pace in 1960 immediately after he left the Massachusetts College of Art, convinced that he would never become a painter but confident that art would nonetheless be his life...
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS YOU COULD HAVE USED YOUR ARTISTIC TALENT. WHY DID YOU MOVE TOWARD DRAWING RATHER THAN BECOMING A PAINTER, FOR EXAMPLE...
...started out as a sculptor, actually. And I found that it was impossible to make a living. I became a painter and went to Paris in 1924. I know everybody refers to that time as a very romantic era, but I found it an economic necessity. You could live very cheaply there. From Hemingway down, any American writer or painter who was living in Paris at that time, they all had an income of some kind. I don't think anybody ever made a dime there...
...self-taught, spent all his life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well off from his bread-and-butter work of portraiture (which, wisely, is not allowed to dominate this show), and they lived in a big flat overlooking Central Park, surrounded by antique furniture, bibelots and old paintings, some genuine...