Word: painterly
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MILES DAVIS' PAINTING Late in life the trumpeter got serious about the visual arts. Inspired by a movement of colorful art in Milan, Davis found acclaim as a painter in Spain and Japan. Estimate...
...central coast, Sears bought a new board and drove to Mexico again the next winter, this time staying for six weeks, long enough to get back into great paddling shape and for his old skills to click. The next winter he took his wife, a former librarian and amateur painter, and stayed for six weeks again. The next winter they doubled their time, enjoying the waves and the migrating gray whales, and they have been spending three months in Mexico each winter ever since. Sears does not surf when he's at home in Morro Bay, but in Baja...
...enough to surprise. You'll want to visit the Hotel de Dieu with its stunning multicolor-tile peaked roofs. Now a museum, it is filled with nice details of its former incarnation as a medieval hospital. Housed inside is The Last Judgment, an extraordinary painting in polyptych by Flemish painter Roger van der Weyden...
Since the 1998 publication of his last book of poetry, Void of Course, Carroll has been writing furiously but without focus, simultaneously working on two novels. One, tentatively titled The Petting Zoo, is the story of a young painter in New York. Carroll is keeping details of the second novel under wraps. All he will say is it resulted from a “great epiphany” years ago and that he “almost sold it as a film to somebody, but I didn’t want to do that...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...