Word: painterly
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DESIGNING WOMEN: Painter John Currin knows how to sell his vision of art and trash...
...Boom Room." It's just hard not to think of it that way, and not only because so many of Currin's paintings are of women with breasts so large you want to yodel from one to the next. (It's a safe bet that he's the only painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom that Currin also brings to mind these days. It's the steady pounding of hype. At 41, with a measure of talent and no shortage of sheer cunning...
Gauguin is more to us than a great painter. He's our ultimate escape artist, the stockbroker who hightailed it to the breadfruit and warm surf and nipples of the South Seas, where his palette and his libido flourished, the man who said no to civilization and really meant...
...DIED, GORDON ONSLOW FORD, 90, last surviving member of the Surrealist school of painters; in Inverness, California. The British-born painter studied in Paris during the 1930s, where he met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who introduced him to the Surrealist group lead by André Breton...
...university known for decorating nearly every ceremonial space of any kind with portraits of founding fathers, patriarchs and presidents, it is surprising that a completely non-representational painter such as Rothko would receive approval from the Corporation for such a prominent display. On the other hand, Pusey had demonstrated his tolerance for modernism by giving university projects to Graduate School of Design Dean Josep Luis Sert, and by commissioning Le Corbusier to design the university’s new Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...