Word: painterly
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...spent five years painting an abstract landscape of her life, 4 ft. high and 225 ft. long in 45 panels, which complements the poetry. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hughes in an exclusive American interview from Hughes' home in Wales, where she lives with her husband, Hungarian-born painter Laszlo Lukacs...
...path to the office of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Director Thomas W. Lentz is paved with art-world gold. On the walls of his small study tucked away in the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, the works of Georges Braque and Walter Sickert—the painter who some think led a double life as Jack the Ripper—represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard?...
...city. Florence was one of the key stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
...keen to soak up the local culture, but unlike most Florentines, their interests extended beyond city and national boundaries. Fabbri and Loeser became clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came in the form...
...time painter Mary Heilmann finished taking questions from her audience at the Carpenter Center on Feb. 22, students felt comfortable enough to approach the podium and discuss a wide array of topics, all the way to the songs she had selected for her presentation. Heilmann—standing beneath projections of paintings inspired by California’s beaches, “The Simpsons,” and an album cover by The Drifters—did her part to demystify the world of postmodern art for those who asked. Speaking about her personal experiences during the psychedelic 1970?...