Word: painterly
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...been overthrown and that Randal, who recently completed a three-year stint in that area, was needed to cover the story. After hurried apologies to his host, he caught the next plane to Algiers. When he got back to the Chagall story two weeks later, Randal found the old painter most impressed that this young reporter who was interviewing him also rushed out to cover coups. Chagall demanded a complete, firsthand account of the situation in Algeria. Suddenly, Randal was In. From that time the maître called him "mon cher," and the conversations went smoothly. Before the interviewing...
...azure light that angles steeply down the slopes above the French Riviera, a sparkling translucence seizes nature. Rocks seem sodden with gold, flowers bloom like dabs on a palette, even grass glistens greener. This light takes hold of a man too. For Painter Marc Chagall, it is a daily baptism in color, an immersion in what is natural, uncontrived, and miraculously innocent...
Only belatedly have museums realized that the history of modern art would seem vacuously cold without Chagall's tender, sometimes desperate exhortation to love life joyfully. "It's absolutely essential to have him," says Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard Brown. Adds a London dealer: "The one painter sought by all museums is Chagall. He has already become an old master...
...costumes for Stravinsky's The Firebird. The curtain for the ballet lofts a bare-breasted Bella in the embrace of a giant bird, her head upside down and holding a bouquet. It was probably his greatest theatrical production, disturbing, profound and an ultimate memorial from the bereaved painter...
...Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals, and a Parisian cathedral altar...