Word: painterly
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Eileen Kennedy, a contributing editor of ArtsMedia Magazine, a journalist and a painter, discovered Arts Amica while reviewing one of the group’s shows in Hyde Park, Mass. During extensive visits to Cuba as a journalist, Kennedy began to paint and exhibit her work there. Through her interaction with the artists, she learned that they are exceptionally skilled in graphic artwork like that of “Petroleo...
Chihwaseon is a sweeping historical epic that centers on the legendary nineteenth century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. Seung-up’s personal drama—his alcoholism, womanizing, and bitter struggle against the conservative academy that scorned his humble birth and unschooled talent—takes place in the milieu of the political and social upheaval resulting from and feeding into the Sino-Japanese...
...DIED. ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, 75, leading Polish surrealist painter; from multiple stab wounds; at his home in Warsaw. Renowned for his disturbing depictions of death and decay, Beksinski was also a prolific photographer and in recent years expanded his work to include computer graphics, producing unsettling images of monstrous, disembodied faces. Two teenage relatives of the artist's longtime aide have been arrested and charged in the murder...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
...contemporary African art. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth, reminiscent of ceremonial fabrics, from thousands of aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate...