Word: temperas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While sweating out the weary months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly...
...month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks, composes his pictures to create a deathly sense of stillness and balance rather than of flow...
Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
...13th Century Italian republic of Siena were tax collectors of a different sort. When the camarlingo (chamberlain) completed his six months' term, he had his parchment records bound between two wooden panels, and commissioned some of the republic's most eminent artists to decorate the covers with tempera paintings. In Florence's Strozzina Gallery last week, some examples of such fancied-up account books were on public display for the first time...