Word: painterly
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...artist was sitting in his tub enjoying a bath, recalls David Douglas Duncan, describing his first encounter with Pablo Picasso 20 years ago. Painter and photographer hit it off, and in the years that followed Duncan clicked off some 50,000 photos of the master and his work, and produced three volumes of Pi-cassiana. In celebration of Picasso's 95th birthday on Oct. 25, Duncan has now produced a fourth, titled The Silent Studio (Norton), which focuses on Picasso's art-filled French Riviera villa and on Jacqueline, his wife for a dozen years before his death...
...Russian emigré, she lived in Paris as a child, moved to the U.S. in 1941, went to a fashionable New York girls' school (Spence) and Barnard. After college she had a fling in Paris, then returned home and settled down to life in the country with her painter husband and two sons, now 15 and 16. A sporadically lapsed Catholic, Mrs. Gray demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam, was busted, got involved with the Berrigan brothers and wrote Divine Disobedience, a splendid book about priestly radicals...
Masquerade. Subtract Divine Disobedience, substitute an architect for that painter husband and Radcliffe for Barnard, and the above details, cheekbones included, pretty well describe Stephanie, the heroine of Mrs. Gray's first novel. This may be why Lovers and Tyrants flourishes only when it is masquerading as a memoir. The author has no trouble persuading the reader that there was once a small girl in Paris named Stephanie. She loved her father and was shattered by his death early in the war. She longed to be a boy and a naval hero, but was stifled by the clinging care...
...Poem Painter" begins typically, with an echo and a shimmer of light musical phrases that remind you a bit of temple bells shivering in the wind. Then the percussion enters, muted yet enriching the sound, and finally the melody--simple and repetitive but constantly branching off in unexpected and spontaneous harmonies. You trace the saxophone's part much as you are drawn by a strand of gold in a piece of cloth. It glows and enriches the fabric and the fabric, (or musical backing) in turn, keeps the shimmer from ever becoming brassy...
...stolen paintings, including works by Eugene Boudin, a French Impressionist, and Gerrit Berckheyde, a Dutch painter, are reportedly worth $380,000. Bok borrowed five of the paintings from the Fogg Museum, and owns the sixth...