Word: painterly
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...robbers took "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an oil painting from 1929 by Polish-born art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, the museum said in a statement. (Read "Spirited Away: Art Thieves Target Europe's Churches...
...wasn’t always so clear that a career in writing was Ashbery’s calling. In high school, he wanted to be a painter, until he was awarded an anthology of twentieth-century poetry for winning an essay contest. Reading the work was a transformative experience, and he entered college determined to concentrate in English...
...England. But by the age of 16, Bacon was in London, and living on his own with a small allowance from his mother and the assistance of various older men. Eventually he drifted into a career as an interior decorator while trying to find his way as a painter. But it wasn't until the 1940s that he arrived at the vocabulary of tortured forms against a flat backdrop that he would develop for the rest of his life...
...characters having the conversation are also named Adam (Rory N. Kulz ’08) and Eve (Julia L. Renaud ’09), both students under the tutelage of the older Feynman. They meet in class, they fall in love, they have a baby. Adam, a painter who hasn’t figured out how to grow up, makes a joke about naming the kid Cain. Theirs is the show’s most affecting relationship...
...South America. She was in an apartment in the Bronx, a private gallery in St. Petersburg or a secret room in the mansion of J.P. Morgan. In fact, she had never left Paris. The thief turned out to be Vincenzo Peruggia - the Hooblers spell it Perugia - an Italian house painter and carpenter living in France, though he was arrested for the crime - in December 1913 - in Florence. He had gone there with the painting after contacting a Florentine art dealer, Alfredo Geri, who he hoped would help him dispose of his hostage in a way that would bring him some...