Word: painterly
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...their own empties, 20th century technological men keep casting wistful second glances at "barbaric" societies that have lived harmoniously and respectfully with the earth. James Houston's particular over-the-shoulder look picks out an imagined Eskimo community at the moment of its intersection with Western life. A painter who spent twelve years in the Canadian Arctic, Houston was intrigued by an oldtimer's yarn of a lost whaleboat crew found wandering on the ice floes by Eskimos in 1896. The three men lived a year among their rescuers, only to be killed by them...
...Black Press" features three articles by students. One, by Nell E. Painter, a graduate student, examines the history of the black press in the U.S., while another by Francesta F.Orme '71 assesses the policies and goals of current black publications. A third article by William W. Bennett Jr. '72 is a study of various Afro-American Cultural Centers...
Died. Marcel Gromaire, 78, French painter and tapestry designer; in Paris. Together with Jean Lirçat, Gromaire became widely known for reviving France's long-dormant tradition of tapestry making at Aubusson during the World War II German occupation; before that, he achieved international recognition with the showing of his striking expressionist painting, La Guerre. In 1951 he won critical acclaim for his series of New York "landscapes" depicting the city as "Dantesque...
...things. It gives you the chance to live more lives." As a result, Liberman's efforts over the past 20 years have restored some lost dignity to the idea of amateurism. Master of several trades but jack of none, he has been student of philosophy, mathematics and architecture, painter, photographer, editor, writer and sculptor, and done it all with a degree of sprezzatura, that peculiar term by which the 15th century Florentines conveyed their praise of a natural and serious grace of action. What Baudelaire wrote on dandyism a century ago is almost exactly true of the virtues...
...Jack was always doing her own collecting concurrently with art expert Berenson's advice. An example of her personal astuteness was the addition to her collection of Anders Zorn (painter and paintings), whom she met in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Mrs. Gardner was walking through the exhibit when she saw a painting that she liked, The Omnibus, she asked a man in the gallery who had done it; it was the artist himself, Anders Zorn. She bought the picture of passengers in a bus, and from there started another of her artist friendships...