Word: painterly
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...with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged in a dogleg...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art is going to change that. Curator Peter Galassi has mounted 90 photographs that Cartier-Bresson, 79, took at the outset of his career, mostly from 1932 through 1934. During those years he put aside his ambitions as a painter and began stalking the streets of three continents with a lightweight Leica and a potent surrealist intuition, an eye for the unearthly subtext of ordinary scenes. Add his powerful gift for spatial arrangement, and the result, says Galassi, is "one of the great, concentrated episodes of modern...
...like face and huge eyes are guileless. Her innocence is believable and her naivete is charming. And thus she is utterly at odds with the chic gallery people who treat her like a lost puppy--lovable and amusing but not worth their attention. When Polly hears them say a painter has "acute awareness," she thinks they mean "a cute awareness, like a cute face...
What we read in Zurbaran as influences of El Greco's "spirituality" struck Pacheco as mannered and distracting. He did not mention his ex-pupil in his book. But Pacheco was a dry, insipid painter, and Zurbaran's slightly awkward fierceness must have been disturbing to a man whose chief pride lay in being the father-in-law of Velasquez. Zurbaran would not master the sense of secular decorum, the discreet and far-reaching rhetorical power of Velasquez's much greater art. He did not try to, since he was mainly painting for monks, not connoisseurs. He and Velasquez studied...
...feminine" late Zurbaran, with his fluid daylight effects and graceful, slightly stilted coloring, though less congenial to modern taste, was not by any means a painter to ignore. In any case, one now sees him whole for the first time, and the Met's show speaks with equal meaning to both experts and the general public. At a time when the rattle of turnstiles so often outvotes the voice of scholarship in American museums, such events unfortunately seem rarer than ever...