Word: painterly
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...more so than in the scene where she sings The Carnival is Over across a pub counter. If Peaches sees McKenzie's spiky talents settle and mature, Paul Cox's recent Human Touch, shot after Monahan's movie, sees it glow. As a young chorister estranged from her painter husband (Aaron Blabey), McKenzie makes Anna's sensual awakening both mysterious and real. But it's in her shift from arthouse to TV primetime that's most likely to cast McKenzie's talents in a new light. Shortly after filming Human Touch in late 2003, the actress flew herself...
...would seem the serious young actress has lightened up. For McKenzie, the turning point came while filming Human Touch in the South of France. Encouraged by director Cox to decorate the villa they were shooing in with his own art works, actor Blabey, himself a painter, coaxed McKenzie to the easel, too. Without any drawing skills, the actress began sponging the canvas with paint, from which figures began emerging - "like you see faces in cloud formations," she recalls. Eighteen months and 63 canvases later, McKenzie has painted up her own little universe, from street urchins to femme fatales...
...chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect Yi achieves by altering the proportion of water to ink on his brush. Animals and birds also make symbolically important appearances throughout the exhibition, which opens under the gaze...
...Prague is famous for its beautifully preserved Baroque architecture, but it also boasts impressive monuments to an even earlier era. Czech painter Zdenek Burian (1905-1981) captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult...
With the Ninth Symphony in heavy rotation on his iPod, ED HARRIS is diligently transforming himself into yet another artistic savant. "He's the greatest musician that ever walked the planet," says Harris, who starred in and directed a 2000 biopic of painter Jackson Pollock. "I'm an actor from New Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning...