Word: painters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gombrich, Durning Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at London University, will give a middle-group course on the history of style. He will also give a graduate seminar on Giorgo Vasari, 16th century Italian painter and architect...
Gombrich has taught at Columbia University, as well as at Harvard Summer School. He is considered a special authority on the Renaissance painter, Julio Romano...
...longtime painter-around-Paris, Miró has lived in his native Spain since World War II, five years ago began new experiments in ceramics in collaboration with his old friend Josep Llorens-Artigas (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). For the past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained...
Golf pros may blow easy putts, a tennis champ double faults, and it is only reasonable to expect on occasion a painter will turn out a turkey, even as great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long made Rembrandt scholars uneasy. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum labeled the painting "attributed to Rembrandt" when it was received as a bequest, later returned it to the donor's estate. This week the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum unveiled a new acquisition that unmasks the mystery: a new version...
Most famed are Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...