Word: rouaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georges Rouault was unsurpassed in his medium. He was on the roster of the great French painting talents who broke into the 20th century in such garish, searing colors that they were called "Wild Beasts," but he stood apart from the rest. In an age given over primarily to secular beliefs, Roman Catholic Rouault was unabashedly a religious man. "I hope to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted," he said. He became the greatest religious artist of his century...
Born during the shelling of Paris by the Prussians in 1871, Rouault was early apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, began painting on a religious theme while studying at the Beaux-Arts. He painted sin in the form of prostitutes, evil in the faces of dishonest judges, misery in the eyes of clowns-and finally he depicted faith and goodness in Christ. He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals. Driven by an unremitting artistic conscience, he agonized over some...
...last decade Rouault's canvases grew brighter, with a new profusion of yellows and greens, as though heaven's trumpets could sound joy as well as fearful contrition. "I have spent my life painting twilights," he said. "I ought to have the right now to paint the dawn." Last week, at his home in Paris, Georges Rouault, 86, died of uremia. During the last six months he had painted hardly at all. Said his daughter Isabelle: "He remained silent, absorbed before the unfinished canvases on the walls of his studio, as though he were seeking a final contact...
Died. Georges Rouault, 86, one of the world's topnotch modern painters; of uremia; in Paris...
...rooms are filled with drawings and prints among which are sixteenth century drawings, a woodcut of Durer, etchings by Jacques Callot, and lithographs by Goya and Daumier. The collection also includes the famous Mlle. Eglantine color lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, works by Renoir and Rouault, and some by Americans such as Ben Shahn...