Word: brushwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative works of three artists to whom this painting has been attributed. Most critics ascribe the painting to either Titian or Giorgione, but the X-rays shows that the painting is smoothly modelled, without, the boldly defined edges characteristic of Giorgione's work, or the flickering, thin brushwork of Titian. It is shown that paintings by Palma Vecchio, a contemporary of Titian and Giorgione, have marked similarity to the "Knight of Malta...
Artist Brockhurst's portraits have the bloom and precise brushwork of the Umbrian school of Italian painters. The figures are serene, meticulously painted against quiet-colored Tuscan landscapes of rolling hills, flowing water, umbrella pines. But posterity is in no danger of mistaking the nationality of his subjects. Brock-hurst's Americans are American, his English sitters unmistakably English. Suavest of his U. S. portraits is that of Mrs. Paul Mellon, the Vassar graduate and divorcee whom Banker Andrew's only son married in 1935.* His drawings and etchings show the same care for line and texture...
...flowing brushwork and radiant color scale of Renoir exact joy from an artist and very nearly limit him to that. Clackens' work in the last two decades of his life included fewer sombre or dressed-up studies, more scenes of outdoors and summer. On a Long Island beach he painted early bathing girls in a bobbing timorous ring in blue water. He caught the gaiety of later swimmers from Long Island to St. Jean...
...third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...
...Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than any of the impressive books in the series, Art Without Epoch gets at a new popularizing technique...