Word: painters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Night of the Iguana (1964). John Huston directs one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play. Richard Burton is the renegade reverend, Deborah Kerr the peripatetic painter and Ava Gardner the rampant tramp...
...17th century Dutch, his name means "the king," and no one in The Netherlands was about to let Painter Willem de Kooning forget it. Back in his homeland for the first time since he sailed to the U.S. as a deckhand in 1926, the 64-year-old abstract expressionist confessed, "I was afraid to come back, but I was wrong." Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd...
...ancient Minoans and Etruscans, was so exacting that artists have devoted a lifetime to mastering the technique. First, the brick wall had to be prepared with several coats of a special plaster made with slaked lime that had been aged for a year or so. Then the painter deftly laid on his water-base colors, which were sucked into the wall by capillary action. He had to work quickly, for the paint he added after the plaster had dried lay on the surface and could eventually flake off. But color applied while the plaster was damp stayed...
While the Met's visiting exhibit does not-and cannot-include any of the near-legendary series of frescoes to which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips...
...rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision of an 1881 Varengeville to the moist verdure of a late (1906-16) Water Lilies...