Word: brushwork
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...science - even socialism had been made ?scientific? - pointillism appeared to lend his art the authority of science. But Seurat gained that not so much by following scientific practices as by evoking them. His surfaces looked systematic, rational, patterned. In fact they were the outcome of many purely spontaneous gestures, brushwork that frequently conformed to no system more orderly than his own intuitions...
...modernity, the Paris of Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. Some of the first canvases in this show are portraits of women painted in Modigliani's earliest style, a gaunt Expressionism bearing all the signs of Edvard Munch and Picasso's by then discarded Blue Period, undertaken with broken brushwork learned from the canvases of Cezanne. It's competent, even sometimes a bit chilling in that entertaining woman-as-vampire mode of Expressionism. All the same, it's derivative of styles and psychological preoccupations that the Left Bank was leaving behind...
...that Hopper's vision extends far beyond that lonely diner. The show, which travels to Cologne's Museum Ludwig in October, is a reminder of Hopper's gift for finding mystery and beauty in the mundane. Face to face, of course, you can appreciate these works as paintings. The brushwork is sometimes fluid and smudgy, sometimes tight and careful; elsewhere surfaces are built up with thick layers. It's all meant to create an impact from a distance, though, and Tate Modern provides plenty of space for this to happen. When talking of Hopper's work, admirers and experts invariably...
...hype? Ever since she arrived in Manhattan 10 years ago from her native London, Brown, 34, has been a perennial rising star. For a while she was also something of an art babe, with spreads in Vogue and Vanity Fair that dwelt as much on her looks as her brushwork. And like any good postfeminist, she took her bows and played to that image, working in a palette heavy on girly pinks and occasionally signing her canvases "Cecily." You know, like Cher...
...weren't for Van Gogh, who but El Greco would be our best symbol for the individual genius, the artist working in a style unlike any other of his time? All that lashing brushwork; the torqued, lunging figures; the saints stretched as tight as thunderbolts by their passion for God--if ever there was an artist whose work seems edged all around by fire, it's El Greco...