Word: painterly
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...painting is not a map in any conventional sense, Geoff Vivian, community development officer for the shire of Halls Creek, speculates as to its provenance. "I think scientists will one day find," he says, that there's "sophisticated hydrographic knowledge" embedded in Aboriginal myth. Maggie Long, another Jaru painter, has popped into the arts center to chat to manager Meg Norling and catch up with other artists. As grinning barefoot toddlers tug at the visitor's clothes for attention, Long spreads a glowing acrylic painting on the floor. "This is where the star man came down," she says, her hand...
However, our teacher, an inspiring and witty painter from Maine, has mastered the art of reassuring me through rhetoric that is either extremely optimistic or extremely euphemistic. For instance, he calls my art “energetic” rather than the term I might use, “messy.” I have also noticed (but hope others have not) that I consume more art materials than anyone else in the class, probably because I am so “energetic.” In case you are curious where your tuition money is spent, Harvard provides unlimited...
...sense of wonder Her portraits simply drip glamour - the wealthy and celebrated of the day posed for Tamara de Lempicka, and her striking oils capture their red lipstick, perfect nails and skin as glossy as their satin dresses. Some art authorities dismiss De Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish-Russian painter who flourished in '20s and '30s Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch, and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour...
...dozen curators, "2004" chimes with the recent Whitney Biennial she saw in New York City. "No longer can you separate pop culture and high art," she says. You can try all you like at "2004," but it won't get you any closer to working out if Brisbane painter Paul Wrigley's airbrushed Ashton, 2003-4, is smiling with or at the cult of celebrity. As Gold Coast artist Scott Redford likes to say (when not videotaping bikini-clad models sawing surfboards in half in a Palazzo Versace hotel suite): "I aim to adopt a strategy of immersion rather than...
...hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving in Paris as Minister to France, he fell in love with a married painter, Maria Cosway. The relationship didn't last, but before it ended, Jefferson wrote Cosway the longest letter of his life, a fanciful, romantic conversation between his "Heart" and his "Head...