Word: painterly
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...Picasso pictures in the show date mainly from the late '20s and early '30s, when the painter was flirting with Surrealism. Bathers with contorted necks, lovers with daggerlike teeth, minotaurs with ravaged victims - all find some allusion in Bacon's works. "I think of myself as a maker of images," Bacon once said, that produce an impact "immediately on the nervous system." Picasso gave him the artistic vocabulary to do that. Bacon claimed it was this "brutality of fact" that linked their work. But Bacon clearly wins in the cruelty stakes, especially in his nudes. His Lying Figure...
...influence. Bacon's debt to Rembrandt's 1655 Carcass of Beef, for example, is obvious in his own renderings of raw meat. But when Bacon died in 1992, he left behind a London studio dominated by the reproductions, press clippings, published anecdotes and other worked-over memorabilia of one painter: Pablo Picasso. Such single-mindedness makes for a great two-person show...
Late-night TV almost had its own Lindbergh baby. Authorities arrested a Montana man last week for allegedly plotting to abduct DAVID LETTERMAN'S 16-month-old son HARRY and Harry's nanny for $5 million ransom. KELLY FRANK, right, who worked as a painter on the Late Show host's isolated Rocky Mountain ranch, allegedly told an acquaintance that he had a key to Letterman's house and knew where the baby slept. That acquaintance alerted police, who charged Frank with felony solicitation. Letterman and his girlfriend Regina Lasko issued a statement calling themselves "forever grateful...
...Locco Ritoro Gallery, on the upper level of the complex, features an exhibition by Utah-based painter Janet Shapero, called “Luminous Passages.” The works resemble paintings, but instead of canvases, Shapero has painted what appears to be window-screening; applying the paint in different thicknesses allows her to let more or less of the screen’s texture come through. The screens are marked by bright colors and rectangular designs, but an all-over marble pattern prevents them from being overly geometric. The exhibit runs through March...
...shik gives a brilliant and humane performance as the painter Seung-up. He generates sympathy and admiration for the struggling artist even as he unflinchingly portrays the villainous aspects of Seung-up’s personality. Min-shik’s Seung-up is sometimes a genius, often a lout, but always compelling. Min-shik’s ability to elicit pathos and laughter with the same gesture is nothing short of remarkable...