Word: painterly
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...father of modern art - a pioneer in his searing portrayal of the dark side of human nature, and in his uncanny ability not only to capture the horrors of his own age but to foreshadow the atrocities to come. If earlier generations have found in the Spanish painter's work clues to their own iconography of despair (The Third of May as a precursor of Picasso's Guernica, the Black Paintings as preparation for images of Auschwitz), the Prado's "Goya in Times of War" is an exhibition for us, the Abu Ghraib generation...
Tusk has never been out for the quick fix. Raised in Gdansk as a member of the tiny Kashubian ethnic minority, he joined the anticommunist Solidarity movement in the 1970s while studying history at university. He was later forced by the authorities to work as a house-painter because of his dissident activities. Tusk shared with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders an antipathy to the government that he says was self-evident: "Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around...
...immense boulders and along cave walls are 30,000-year-old images of stick figures and animals such as crocodiles, snakes and tortoises, in shades of ocher. The prehistoric images were discovered in the 1960s by Percy Trezise, an artist and bush pilot. These days his son Steve, a painter and rock-art expert, occasionally leads tours around the sites. "These paintings tell the stories of Aboriginal myths and legends," he says...
...think you do, but I’m more interested as a writer and a teacher in what you don’t know, what you want to know, what you’re afraid to know. Writing is a path of discovery.6.FM: In the book you mention the painter, Don Bachardy, as an artist who exemplifies the daily rigor that goes into any art. What other non-literary figures do you admire?BJ: Right now, like most of the world, I’m fascinated by Amy Winehouse. I’m smitten beyond belief with her music...
...have shown it.” Hartwig’s use of uninhibited imagery wrought with implicit emotion creates a disquieting sensation. Her poems unnerve because they force us to realize the truths we have been hiding, even from ourselves. Hartwig suggests that, like the poem’s painter, men and women attempt to live life constantly behind a screen of pretense. By exposing the painter, she exposes us and forces us to question whether we have remained true to our most deeply held hopes.Hartwig applies the same critical perspective to the ostensibly mundane. By casting light...