Word: painterly
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...what is one to make of an opera about the life and turbulent times of Francisco Goya (Domingo, in robust voice) that omits almost every significant incident in the painter's life? Of a work that concentrates on a historically disputed love affair with the Duchess of Alba (Mezzo-Soprano Victoria Vergara), concluding with a gratuitous mad scene, replete with writhing spirits and fun-house demons? Of a score whose one striking musical device, an insistent, high-pitched whine signifying Goya's deafness, is borrowed from Smetana's string quartet From My Life...
...thing to be studying something that's academic and another thing to be studying something that's living," says Storey. "Wu Hung is a Chinese painter and he's a part of a society I'm trying to understand. He makes academics real...
...Chinese art is the representation of an idea," Wu Hung explains. "In Western art, there is less emphasis on the political attitude of the painter; instead, there is a personal relationship between the viewer and the painting...
...maestro of this process was Matisse. He was a mature painter of 48 when he started his first working sojourn in Nice after 1916. Just as Gauguin had carried his style preformed with him to Tahiti, so Matisse took his to the Cote d'Azur. One would logically expect that given the tremendous efforts of ! abstraction and integration that had gone into his work from his fauve paintings of 1905-06 to The Moroccans of 1916, nothing he did thereafter would seem trivial to art historians. Yet such was not the case. Most accounts of Matisse's life treat...
Matisse, though, made no such assumptions. He was not an abstract artist but a magisterial painter of bodies and spaces. The specific did not just "interest" him; it was close to an obsession, for all the apparent generalizations of his style. Even in paintings of calm and predictable subjects, like the girl seated by a vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance...