Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago. In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...
While Chicagoans last week gaped with sincere admiration at Painter Rousseau's creations, Manhattan gallery-goers did their best to find a U.S. Rousseau among their crop of self-taught U.S. artists. And though they failed, they found that U.S. primitives had turned out some quaint and naively appealing canvases. Of the 30 U.S. primitive artists selected by Collector Janis to be shown at the Marie Harriman Gallery the best...
Huey Long's machine fell apart after an assassin's bullet knocked Huey out of the driver's seat in 1935. But the machine has been patched up. This week it rolled as smoothly as ever through the quaint, crooked streets of New Orleans...
...tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...
...quaint performance, that review of my novel, Between Two Worlds! [TIME, March 24]. Your reviewer cannot forgive me because I write "easily." He ought to know that I have been 46 years at it; the day when I began may have been before he was born. [Right-ED.] There is a saying that "easy writing makes hard reading"; but your critic admits that in my case both are easy...