Word: painterly
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...some revolutionary French ideas about politics. "I hated conventional art," said Mary Cassatt, a leading American artist of the 19th and 20th centuries. "When I joined the Impressionists, I began to live." Cassatt was not alone. By the late 1870s Impressionism was already an established movement in France. American painters were flocking there to embrace the new style, blending European approaches and techniques with their own influences and vision. Cassatt and her contemporaries - including John Leslie Breck, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Theodore Robinson - created a style known as American Impressionism, which remains largely unknown in Europe...
...walls are decorated with a set of prints by Daumier—the 19th century French painter whose works advocated for the poor—and pictures of himself advising President Clinton and Sen. George McGovern...
...Korean grandmaster. He's been directing for 40 years; nearly 100 features. Chihwaseon, his portrait of 19th century painter Jang Seung-Up (known as Ohwon) is both a biography of an inspired, difficult man and as close as Im is apt to come to autobiography. Like a film director, painters work in public: the brilliant peasant Ohwon is ever surrounded by members of the artist class who, in their cool high hats with wide brims, look like hip Hasidim. He applies his drips and daubs like a performance artist (or like Jackson Pollock, another alcoholic who mistreated his women...
...graceful period pieces, produced with Akira Kurosawa-style attention to costume and scenery and marked by a peculiarly Korean form of sadness called han. Shaped by countless foreign invasions and Korea's ensuing sense of rage and helplessness, han permeates Im's movies. The protagonist in Chihwaseon is a painter who realizes he can only create masterpieces when he is drunk. Even then, he is too emotionally deadened to enjoy the beauty of what he creates...
...life, or they may just have been spitted on a French saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...