Word: painterly
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...such as no artist in history had known. It could only have been created by the pressures of the 20th century, with its mass magazines, its art market, its mania for promiscuity among famous names combining in the most sustained exercise in mythmaking ever to be visited on a painter. In the end he was trapped by his own reputation, the idol and prisoner of his court of toadies and dealers, fawned on and denied the ordinary resistances against which an artist, to survive at all, must push...
...great painters are precocious, but Picasso was. In a technical way, he was as much a prodigy as Mozart, and his precocity seems to have fixed his peculiar sense of vocation. He was born in Málaga in 1881, the son of a painter named José Ruiz Blasco (a fine-boned inglés face, nothing like Pablo's simian mask; that came from his mother), and by 13 he was so good at drawing that his father is said to have handed over his own brushes and paints to the boy and given up painting. If the story is true...
...influence of one artist dominates the Blue Period. He was Puvis de Chavannes (1824-98), a painter of pale, chalky allegories, figure compositions with gravely flattened and somewhat elongated bodies, whose work was admired by Van Gogh, Gauguin and the symbolists of the 1890s, as well as young Turks like Picasso. He had studied Puvis's frescoes in the Pantheon, and their upright, formalized mien gave the measure to his big allegory of young love and despair, La Vie, 1903. (Originally the young man in the painting was a self-portrait, but Picasso turned it into the face of Carlos...
...interested in content," Hitchcock said. "It's the same as a painter not worrying about the apples he's painting?whether they're sweet or sour. Who cares? It's his style, his manner of painting them?that's where the emotion comes from." Acting, he declaimed, did not really count in movies: it was photography, editing, "all the technical ingredients that [make] the audience scream...
Exiled from Rome in 1935 by Mussolini's Fascists, Carlo Levi, poet, painter, doctor and political dissident, was sent to a mountain village in Lucania in southern Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...