Word: painterly
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EXHIBIT BY NEW VES FACULTY. The Carpenter Center is displaying work by new VES faculty members: printmaker Gail Deery, photographers Jim Dow and Mark Steinmetz, sculptor Mel Kendrick and painter John Obuck. Through Feb. 16. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Sundays, 12 to 11:30 p.m. Free. Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
...remember Leonardo as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and scientist. Yet if one is to judge by the self-advertising letter he sent to Sforza in Milan in 1481, he didn't rate his skills that way. Before anything else, he listed his strategic ingenuity: he could design portable bridges, drain moats, bombard strongholds, design and cast siege cannon, make fireproof ships, and so on and on. Not until item No. 10, the last on his list, did he get around to saying that in painting too he could "do everything possible as well as any other." There may have...
...printed drawings any more?) in the service of an obsolescent one (who goes to the theater?), his work never grew senescent. His hand was as firm and supple as ever, the late drawings an ever-more assured symphony of fine lines. "Draw lines, young man, many lines," the old painter Ingres had advised Edgar Degas in the 1850s. That's what Al did: kept filling the page with many lines, many people, lots of furniture, until the image was as cramped as the cabin in "A Night at the Opera...
...Joey choreographs a modern ballet based on the true story of expatriate German painter Walter Spies, who arrived in Bali in 1927. Spies single-handedly established Ubud as a bohemian destination, but he was later jailed for buggery by the then colonial Dutch authorities. Joey casts himself as Spies and finds a teenage Balinese dancer to play the painter's 16-year-old boyfriend. A rave pre-performance review raises expectations within the New York art world. But the show bombs when it moves to the big city, and Joey's life unravels. Bali has unleashed his naked ambition...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...