Word: painterly
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...early fifties, the avant-garde knew Jackson Pollock as a man who might come into his favorite East Hampton bar late one night, have a few drinks, and knock his fellow painter Franz Kline across the room. Folks at home knew him, thanks to Henry Luce's magazines, as "Jack the Dripper," the angry-looking young man who put canvas on the floor, slopped a little Duco paint around, added some sand and miscellaneous junk, and called the mess a painting. He seemed as full of chaos as his paintings. He smoked Camels, drank hard, then finally lost control...
...painter today could we have an impression of equal intensity...
...graced a Grecian banquet table and held perhaps seven gallons of wine. So proud were its makers, the painter Euphronios and the potter Euxitheos, that each signed his name boldly on the front. Even now, 2,500 years later, the calyx krater is not merely the best Greek vase in existence. It is the costliest, having been bought last summer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for $1,000,000. As of last week, it was also by far the most controversial...
...19th century painter, not even the great sensualist Delacroix, has affected our unconscious view of women as powerfully as Renoir. This is partly due to the popularity of his work and partly to the unwavering, passionate chauvinism of his feelings about his favorite subject, the nude. Compared with Renoir, even Picasso looks like a feminist. "Look," Renoir explained succinctly to his friend, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, "a painter who has the feeling for breasts and buttocks is a saved...
Softness. But to look inside these limits is to rediscover a considerable painter. That his world was insulated, or his sexual politics Neanderthal, is not so important; an artist must be judged, to some degree, in terms of his aims. He wished to construct a universe of plea sure and relaxation - like Matisse's "armchair for tired businessmen," but more so - and in this he succeeded. He was the natural heir of the finest decorators of the 18th century, Fragonard and Boucher. "He who has not lived be fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life...