Word: painterly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...novel tells of how Zollner, who is just one bestseller away from fame, travels to the countryside to interview the reclusive Manuel Kaminski and write the artist’s definitive biography. But he soon gets sidetracked from this task, finding himself on a road trip with the painter to the city. While this rare chance to spend some intimate time with Kaminski may have seemed like the perfect opportunity to enliven his book with personal anecdotes, Zollner realizes through this experience that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial biography would only trivialize...
...million gift is not the novelist’s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...
...Cornwell departed from her usual fiction writing to advance this argument in her book “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.” She used forensic research techniques to argue that Sickert, an English painter, was, in fact, the serial killer...
...human experience is revealed.Despite the deliberate structure of 10 groups of 10 14-line sonnets, the collection’s overarching narrative remains confusing. Each of the 10 sections has its own quasi-plot: a woman named Ang suffers through a relationship, a woman falls in love with a painter, a man named Lam flees the scene of a murder and ends up at an airport in Georgia. The characters are little more than ciphers, though, and they often disappear when thematic commentary is to be delivered, only to reappear pages later as if they’d never been...
Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 is not just a triple threat. As an actor, director, playwright, painter, and costume and set designer, he’s a far more multifarious artistic entity. He started his theater career at the age of six with an appearance on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and he was extensively involved in community and professional theater throughout high school. Despite his numerous theatrical accomplishments, Vartikar-McCullough says, “Theater was never my focus; it was always very much visual art.” It?...