Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bald, bearded Frenchman hunched painfully over his writing table was feeling old, ill and a bit sorry for himself. Painter Paul Cézanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...oils and 18 watercolors in last week's show, most looked hesitant and patchy, and a few were seriously out of whack. Cézanne never learned to draw as fluently as the average commercial artist, and like most perfectionists he was stammeringly conscious of his failure to paint perfectly. If he had not inherited a comfortable income from his banker father, and been blessed with a stoically believing wife and a businesslike son to manage his affairs, the "Hermit of Aix" might never have created such powerful...
...reason the show soared: there was never a message to weigh it down. Children, no matter how solemn, seldom worry about what their paintings mean; they are too busy deciding how the pictures should look. Grownups can bother their heads about the meaning-and some do. In a book published last week (Painting and Personality, University of Chicago; $10), Psychologists Rose Alschuler and La Berta Hattwick read some big meanings into little dabblings. Among them: emotionally well-adjusted little children incline to paint free, open forms, in warm colors. Unhappy ones often choose cold colors (especially black), paint tightly enclosed...
...Workshop had to resort to "hiring a hall" after the University had decided to dump 400 folding chairs in the very spot where "Saint Joan" was taking shape After searching every nearby broom closet for free space, the group finally brought its wigs and grease paint to the Somerset...
Best of the lot was a Dubliner whose name had none of the old sod in it. Louis Le Brocquy (rhymes with rocky), is only 29. His watercolors were roughly rubbed with wax and scarred with nervous jabs and dashes of India ink. He liked to paint Ireland's tinkers: the wandering tinsmiths and horse jobbers whose ability to turn broken nags into one-day blood horses, for sale at country fairs, is the stuff of Irish legend. One Le Brocquy painting of a little girl bathing in a canal (see cut) spoke of children everywhere...