Word: painterly
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Odds are he'll say he likes being a carpenter. At least, he probably won't say he'd rather be a painter, or a roofer, or a lamper...
...Brooklyn, afresh view of a major American painter...
...painter was an illusion...
THAT WAS THE THEME of last week's recitals, as it has been of all Cunningham's choreography: the basic processes of the human body's motion, discerned with a painstaking and endlessly refreshing eye. Like a painter absorbed in something as slight as the fall of light on a glass jar, Cunningham is fascinated by the eloquent detail: a dancer's leg arcing upward like a searchlight against the sky, the drift of weight in space when the body leans slowly backwards, dancers bounding across the stage like stones skipped across water. The patterns aren't only visual, either...
...novelty in that I'm somewhat a product of Harvard and I'm also somewhat of a painter," American artist Robert Motherwell said in a speech last night at the Carpenter Center...