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Peter Pelham, a relatively unknown Boston mezzotint engraver and portrait painter, died in 1751, leaving his studio to his thirteen-year-old stepson. In the course of the next two years, that studio studio provided the nutriment for what became one of the richest and most vital careers in the history American painting. Pelham's stepson was John Singleton Copley, and his career is commemorated this year a major retrospective exhibition of his work. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have gathered 103 oils, pastels, minatures, and drawing (including...
...ambitions. His interest in historical themes, and in the extensive anatomical research (see below) that forms the groundwork for that genre, is clear in these works. But in America artists had to seek their bread and butter in portraiture, and Copley was forced to abandon his ambitions as a painter of history until his emigration to England...
...skillful rococo colorist named Joseph Blackburn arrived from England. He immediately became an established painter in Boston and his work had a profound influence on Copley's portraiture. Blackburn's colors were light and gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most...
...earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...
...Swiss impressionist painter, Giacometti went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle, and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life...