Word: portraitists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robert Wood Johnson (Johnson & Johnson), with the slick competence of an accomplished academician. He also endowed most of them with the typical seraphic Brockhurst expression: the clear, luminous eyes and smooth complexions that made him the favorite portraitist of well-heeled town & country Britons for nearly 25 years...
...schooldays. "The young Botticelli," his fellow art students called him. After "winning," as he says himself, "all the medals and scholarships the Royal Academy Schools in London award," he got his own studio; within a few years he established himself as Europe's most fashionable and highest-paid portraitist. In 1939, he left England to do a few commissions in the U.S., stayed on during World War II, finally became a U.S. citizen...
...period dominated by elegance and smugness. His contemporaries, Guardi in Italy, Fragonard in France and Gainsborough in England, all devoted 'themselves to the depiction of pomp and pleasure. Goya did, too, but he painted pompous fools and smirking harlots. He was as harsh and realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked as the emperor in the fable of the "Emperor...
...young artist on her first exhibition in London, Master Portraitist Augustus John wrote: "You must admit that it isn't enough to have the eyes of a gazelle (although they are fatal); you also need the claws of a cat in order to capture your bird alive and play with it before you eat it, and so join its life to yours. This is the mystery of painting...
...British Royal Academy are apt to be huge, and hugely dull affairs. This year's exhibition, which opened in London last week, was something of an exception. Besides the academy's standard landscapes and lackluster likenesses, it featured an ambitious composition by 71-year-old Portraitist Augustus John and some pretty splashings by top-ranking Honorary Member Winston Churchill. It also boasted one picture that made all the rest look pale: a new 21-by-7-ft. Resurrection by Stanley Spencer, a frayed little sparrow of a man who may well be a modern master...