Word: painterly
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...hero of Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday; 511 pages) is smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan...
...DIED. Sir Terry Frost, 87, durable painter of bright, geometric abstracts; in Newlyn, Cornwall. The untrained Frost first took up painting as a World War II prisoner of war after the invasion of Crete and eventually became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A friend described him to the bbc as "a very noisy person, who said the secret to long life was champagne and Guinness...
...done it by scripting quirky, multidimensional characters such as the plucky Minami (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who rebuilt her life after her fianc? left her waiting at the shrine in Long Vacation, and Tell Me You Love Me's indefatigable Hiroko (Takako Tokiwa), who fell in love with a deaf painter...
...first of those was a 1999 studio and home for the painter Chris Ofili, creator of the notorious Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly...
...1930s were not kind to paul Klee. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, the celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he was suspended from his teaching job at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and he reluctantly left Germany for Bern, where he had grown up. Then, in 1936, he was diagnosed with an incurable auto-immune disease which causes internal paralysis - including the constriction of blood vessels - and hardening...