Word: painters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nash's poem is very ambitious. A long and complicated work, it is the biography of a painting combining nature, the painter, onlookers, and the canvas itself as it develops. As the story of a painting within a poem, one might call Nash's work the autobiography of a poem...
...same subject, owned by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, it is one of the most serene, glowing and untroubled canvases Van Gogh ever painted. It carries with it Van Gogh's sense of joyous (though temporary) release from an attack of madness that the painter described when he wrote to his brother from Saint-Rémy two months before his suicide: "That horrible attack has disappeared like a storm, and I work with calm and steady ardor to do a few last things here...
...owes a debt to Miro; his Four Bathers carries echoes of Picasso and Braque. But Pirandello's interest in the human form (he first studied to be a sculptor) keeps them well on this side of abstraction. Says Italian Critic Lionello Venturi: "He is the most human painter in postwar Italy...
Always the Memory. Painter Afro, 45, now showing 19 of his latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
Afro's memories go back to his childhood at Udine, near Venice, where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...