Word: painterly
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...black and white eye foolers in the show, gave him some dazzling competition with a turquoise-and-white-striped evening coat over a turquoise-and-white-striped long dress, but Sculptor Marilynn Karp outstriped her by running her black and white stripes from dress to stockings to shoes. Painter Jane Wilson was completely optical in a sleek, hooded sheath of white organdy, delightfully dizzy in disks of black and grey. Magazine Editor Pat Coffin wrapped herself in a giant silk stole of peristaltic black dots on a white field that was designed by Painter Bridget Riley, whose op offerings...
...appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...
...male previewers, in their black and white identical uniforms, could barely be distinguished by the color of their eyes (redder going out than coming in) and whether or not they wore beards. One notable exception: Painter Larry Rivers, no opster with a brush, who blurred the vision by wearing two neckties-one red, one blue-and-white-striped-on a button-down shirt covered with dime-size green polka dots...
...class the likes of which Hamburg's Art Academy had never known. For five days, to the constant serpentine sound of Arab music, the guest lecturer, a Viennese painter named Hundertwasser, and his delighted students worked at painting the longest line in the world. It spiraled across the floor, looped up the walls, curved across the ceiling, and would have swirled out the door, but by that time the academy had dismissed Hundertwasser. The line, estimates the artist, only got to be 20 miles long...
...years ago even the largest of Hundertwasser's works could be bought for $10 apiece (Peggy Guggenheim paid $50 for hers). Today Hundertwasser has become Austria's hottest painter, selling his works to the Rothschilds, French Premier Pompidou and André Malraux at prices from $2,000 to $17,000. Currently, to Hundertwasser's delight, Vienna's Museum of the 20th Century is showing 120 of his works...