Word: painterly
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...criticim, it's a biography Beautiful done," Barthes remark on George Painter's Proust in another interchange. Yet another is a sense ion which biography, or seeds of biography which rest in the interstices of these questions and answers constitutes a type a protocriticism--not so much a voyeuristic attempt to divine the "real" writer behind the text, to pry into the realm of his "personality" in the hopes of somehow catching him "off-guard," but, in the senses, rather, of a self-reading, a reading of the body of one's own writings, the writing...
...quick to pounce, often humorously, when he sniffed out dishonest intentions or botched executions. He acknowledges one novelist's gradations of ineptitude: "She began several years ago with writing unmitigated nonsense, and she now writes nonsense very sensibly mitigated." He praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed by the painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion...
...since one of the main facts of contemporary art is the resurgence of figurative expressionism, it seems ridiculous that the East should not see what, despite some trimming, amounts to the definitive exhibition of the man, born a century ago in 1884, who was the greatest German painter of the 20th century...
...average vulgar art," he noted in one of his copious journals, "which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life." This was in 1909, when the young Leipzig painter was just a month shy of 25. He was not far from such ambitious images of modern catastrophe as The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. This enormous, early painting, 8 ft. 8 1/2 in. by 10 ft. 10 in., is a "journalistic" homage to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa...
...SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY. A gentle old painter (Louis Ducreux) tries one summer Sunday to reconcile family responsibilities with a renewed passion for his art. In this hugely affecting miniature, Director Bertrand Tavernier illuminates the twilight of a man's life with the colors of compassion...