Word: sploshua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factual truth of this can be assessed by anyone who visits the Reynolds retrospective now running at London's Royal Academy. Reynolds' paintings have long since faded, mimicking his reputation. "Sir Sploshua," as others called him for his generous and Rubenesque handling of wet paint surfaces, had an imp of fakery lodged in his breast. He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art. To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil. "Varnished three times with different varnishes, and egged...
...William Hamilton points to an engraving of one of his own Greek vases and Mr. John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what Sir Sploshua's friend Sir George Beaumont meant when he swept aside the doubts of an uncertain client: "No matter, take the chance; even a faded picture from Reynolds will be the finest thing you can have...
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