Word: painterly
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...good to be true about famous last words. Did Oscar Wilde really say, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do"? I certainly hope so, but still. So we should be careful with the claim that in his last recorded utterance, a few weeks before he died, the English painter J.M.W. Turner, the man who whipped up force fields of light, who could make light obliterate almost everything it fell on and then make it spell out everything else, turned to somebody and said...
...didn't say that, he certainly should have. Turner devoted his life to light, even when his public couldn't follow him into it. His admirers, and they included the great polemicist John Ruskin, called him the supreme English painter of his day. His critics, and there were more of them all the time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible...
...French Laundry in Napa Valley, California; Alain Passard from L'Arpège in Paris; Santi Santamaria from Can Fabes in Catalonia and Nicolas Le Bec from Lyon. Wineries from world-renowned regions including Chateau Haut-Brion from Bordeaux and Frescobaldi from Tuscany will host tastings, and German painter Hella Nohl will discuss red wine's place in her palette. www.rhwfae.com...
...always suave former Rome mayor made the rounds on Italian national television Thursday night with the first four pieces the Getty has already returned, including a prized 5th century B.C. vase attributed to the Greek painter Euphronios. In an interview this week with TIME, Rutelli said the deal with the Getty - which follows smaller-scale agreements with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts - marks a watershed in the international effort to force otherwise upstanding cultural institutions to turn over works with a nefarious past. "We're proud... of the ethical value...
...world, Canadian painter Ken Danby was more commercial than cool. But if some critics turned up their noses at his realistic images--of the Ontario landscape, of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky and other sports figures, of PM Pierre Trudeau for a 1968 Time cover--his appeal among regular folks helped cement his place in museums around the world. His most widely reproduced work, At the Crease, of a masked hockey goalie waiting for a hit, became an unofficial national symbol and won praise from Danby's hero, realist Andrew Wyeth, as "terrifying and exciting." Danby died of an apparent heart...