Word: painterly
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...Warhol's sense of the ripeness of a moment is exquisite: since he lives in media and feeds off publicity, it has to be. (He has, in fact, been upstaged only once, when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated just two days after Valerie Solanas shot Warhol.) His activity as painter went on over a decade when American society was expending vast energies in self-scrutiny. In 1950, a photo of a dead duck on a beach was a marine still life; by 1970, the same photo was a reference to ecological ruin...
...Bauchau) is a dandified Paris antique dealer who decides to take a vacation from his mistress. His holiday goal at a friend's villa near St.-Tropez, he announces, is "to do and to be absolutely nothing." Unfortunately for his purposes, the villa is already occupied by a painter friend and by Haydee (Haydée Politoff), a pouty, bikini-clad young swinger who collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter and a wealthy American art fancier gradually arouse Adrien's own confused feelings of jealousy and lust. Amused by the thought...
...black press feature is an attempt at implementing both the forum and workshop purposes of the Journal. Thus it begins with an historical survey by Nell Painter. a Harvard graduate student, of the first 100 years of Afro American journalism and concludes with "A Walk Through the Wasteland," an analysis by Marquite Jones, assistant producer of ABC's black oriented "Like It Is," of the roles and reflections of black people in national television. Other articles in the feature include Francester F. Orme's "The Black Press, a memorandum for change" responses from black publishers to a Journal questionnaire: Charles...
...damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more...
Ford finally broke away. Eventually he found two ideal women-Stella Bowen, an Australian painter, who lived with him from 1919 to 1927, and another painter, Janice Biala, who stayed from 1930 until his death in 1939 at the age of 66. "When Ford wanted anything," Stella wrote, "he filled the sky with an immense ache that had the awful simplicity of a child's grief...