Word: painterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Skolimowski fills his backgrounds with imagery (a painter covering a wall in red, a man in the swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
...painter, he held, "prefers to beautify." But the draftsman, who works with the more wiry stuff of line, "practices a form of criticism with his scratching." The man with the pen "looks perpetually at the unfilled holes, the yearned for and the barely attainable; his is a personal coming to terms with a world of irreconcilable powers. The painter bodies forth optimism ... the draftsman cannot escape his more negative vision, beyond appearances." So Klinger the painter moved sedately between a professorship in Leipzig and his country vineyard, turning out the portraits and allegories his patrons sought, and ignoring the obsessions...
When Homosexual Painter Nicholas Black spoke these words in Morris West's 1959 novel, homosexuality and Christianity seemed incompatible. For the vast majority of Christians in most churches, they still are, though there is a new-if somewhat grudging-acceptance of Black's point. What is more, at least two small new U.S. denominations are vigorously promoting an openly gay Christianity...
Traditional Values. At 63, Stans seems too certain of traditional values to consider any basic change. The son of a Shakopee, Minn., house painter, he joined Chicago's Alexander Grant & Co. accounting firm as an office boy at age 20, became a partner after ten years and helped turn the organization into the nation's tenth largest accounting firm. During the late Eisenhower years he was director of the Bureau of the Budget, overseeing Washington's last set of balanced books in fiscal 1960. Then he became an investment banker until signing on as Nixon...
...Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House), intellectual fixture of the New Frontier and now a Professor at the City University of New York; and Alexandra Emmet Allan, 35, daughter of the late Lily Gushing, noted painter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...