Word: painterly
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...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
...writer, David Benioff (“25th Hour”), leaves little room for McGregor to delve into his character’s idiosyncrasies. Perhaps the film’s most underused resource is Naomi Watts. Watts plays Lila, Dr. Foster’s once suicidal painter-girlfriend. However, her character adds so little to the storyline, one wonders if her only purpose is to serve as eye candy for the testosterone-charged twenty-something viewer. Her subplot—Dr. Foster discovers that Lila is no longer taking her Klonopin pills because she claims she can?...
...began his apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...fame was largely due to his masterful painting of scenes charged with emotion. Much of it was sexual tension: while female models did not seem to arouse any particular passion in the painter, young boys with dreamy and inviting looks are a recurrent theme in his work...
...collection space, one senses a cultural flowering just as important as any glassy cathedral to contemporary art. Here the fiberglass manta ray and skater-boy video of former "Primavera" artists James Angus and Shaun Gladwell sit happily alongside such contemporary jewels as Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculpture and bark painter John Mawurndjul's rainbow serpent. Here, and across Australasia, spring has sprung...