Word: painterly
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...that life stage. Craig moved away before 9/11 to become a professor and raise a family. Though he harbors a secret mid-life crisis, Craig seems the most grounded of the crew. He becomes the story's locus as he reacquaints himself with his friends. Mac, a successful painter and permanent bachelor, left the city after the disaster. Deeply shaken by the experience, but loathe to admit it, he puts up a vain and pompous front - "Don't touch my hair" he screams - that only his chums can get through. Craig and Mac wonder if Neil, a notorious womanizer whose...
...resolved the question later, as both went on to become documentary filmmakers, with Tranchin working for PBS in Texas and Moore in Maryland. In 1999, they received a project proposal from another former classmate, Rob D. Eustis ’78. They were to direct a film about the painter with the enormous palette from the third floor of the Carpenter Center, whom Tranchin had admired but who was only vaguely familiar to Moore...
...have to hold a brush,” he says. “It’s part of my daily routine.” Tranchin and Moore understood this view of art and its connection to Alcalay’s past, which emerges in their interviews with the painter. “All the various moments of his life suddenly become milestones,” Moore said. “That’s how the structure of the film evolved...
...painter, Alcalay was initially influenced by the Expressionist movement, then moved deeper into his love of landscape. He realized later that the three worlds among which he moved—Expressionism, landscapes and abstract painting—and which became in their disparateness a source of frustration, were not mutually exclusive. In the end, the landscape still needed to be expressed by his brush...
...faded oranges and purples, evocative of sunset. He infused his later 1984 work “Study for Festivities” with a sense of pure human joy, though the painting does not contain a single human figure. When Alcalay finally came to grips with himself as a landscape painter, he saw himself in his early years as “describing the landscape. Now, I’m evoking the landscape...