Word: painterly
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...painting-before being a war horse, a nude woman or some anecdote-is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order," said one painter-polemicist, Maurice Denis, in 1890. Thus began the rapid but epic evolution in which representation was first blurred, then distorted, then broken into fragments and finally disappeared altogether in abstraction. The artists arrogated to themselves (as did the poets at the same time) the right to say what art was, with the added inference that if the viewer (or reader) did not understand it, that was his fault...
...personality is the only common note that modern opinion strikes. It is a doctrine that brings art criticism down to the plane of psychoanalysis. The principle was perhaps pushed to its extreme by Peegy Guggenheim, who has admitted that she was not much impressed by Jackson Pollock as a painter until the day he urinated in her fireplace...
...stodgy, grandiose style of the full-blown sopranos popular at the turn of the century, was enormous. She was the first of the great singing actresses, a complete performer capable of re-creating opera heroines in her own poignant, personal image. She used her voice as a painter uses a brush, coloring each role with its own distinct intonation. Her Thaïs was brazen and worldly, her Melisande pale and groping, her Louise earthy and free-loving...
...Whereupon he went out and got a pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket for his wallet, and Italians are always showing themselves off in tight pants...
...frappe, Françoise is right when she insists that she really is not a singer of unusual gifts or an actress at all. "The only time I'm good," she says, "is when I'm playing myself." But what an ineffable presence that self is. Painter Bernard Buffet saw her on TV in 1962 and immediately told his wife: "This girl is Electra in a black raincoat. Tomorrow all the French girls will want to look like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case, the Olympia Music Hall (where...