Word: portraitists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish...
...likes to have its members remembered. Exhibited to that end last week at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Building was a fascinating array of work by vigorous Academicians from Inness to Homer to Bellows, plus notes, letters and early telegraphic contraptions by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the gifted portraitist and first president of the Academy (1826-45), who turned inventor to make a living...
...quality which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...
...visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found a powerful concentration of evidence...
Serious U. S. landscape painting began with a Connecticut portraitist named Ralph Earl, one of whose clients paid him in 1800 to paint the view from his farm. The result. Looking East from Leicester Hills, was dim but sufficient evidence that the "U. S. Scene" was already discovered. Among Earl's successors...