Word: art
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painter Fausett once took a fling at modern art, still likes some of it. "But," says he, "it doesn't belong inside a frame. It's decorative and that's all. Braque, for instance, is at his best in tapestries." Lucioni, who paints barns in a studio barn of his own, is too much awed by nature to tamper with it in his pictures: "When I'm out in the woods I have the feeling that I'm in an immense cathedral...
Such modest conservatives, entrenched in their green hills, might hold off the moderns indefinitely. They hope to do more than that: to create a summer center as renowned in art as the Berkshires' Tanglewood festival is in music. Plans are under way for a huge, round exhibition hall and theater patterned on 18th Century Vermont's barns, to make next year's exhibition bucolic inside & out. Artist Fausett, who helped hang last week's show, was particularly pleased with the idea. In a round barn, he mused, no one could complain of being hung...
...Anthony Van Dyck was one of the best art students that ever lived, and the special pet of Antwerp's great painter Peter Paul Rubens. In Antwerp's Koninklijk Museum last week, painters and art lovers were learning from Student Van Dyck. The exhibition, in celebration of the 350th anniversary of his birth, contained 134 paintings, sketches and etchings, showed both the strengths and weaknesses of imitative, academic genius...
...persuaded to stay. The Crown gave him a summer residence at Eltham Palace and he spent his winters in Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...
...stab his painting hand) exhausted him. At 40, Van Dyck left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were not in his line...