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...Painter Karl Knaths never uses models, for the elementary reason that a model would only hamper him. "Before I start a painting," he explains, "I have an idea-or a motif-in mind. It could be a piece of a landscape or maybe a still life. From the motif you break into planes to create spaces." In the spaces he paints the objects and figures central to the motif, at the same time building up an architectural structure usually made of heavy black lines. As the painting progresses, he keeps forms and colors in key with each other, changing them...
...painter of A Day has the soul of a businessman, and is so uninteresting a figure as to be tiresome even as a figure of fun; while the bad painter, Gully Jimson, of The Horse's Mouth has the soul of an artist, and is endlessly fascinating, Jimson the shambling, vital Bohemian is Guinness's triumph, aand what a pity it is that he has never found or been given another vehicle like this one: for here, surely, in the emotionally intricate realm of sentimental, subtle farce Guinness is at his very best. His Jimson is much funnier than...
Jimson is the Edwardians' secret dream of an unfetterd vie boehme come to life: he owns a houseboat, he hates the rich and noble to their Philistine faces, he is witty and irascible, he is irresistible to women. Also, as I have mentioned, he is a lousy painter, but the secret of Jimson's charm, the fact that allows us to let him get away with all his outrageousness, is that he never, or hardly ever, pretends that his work is much good. He is too much of an artist to try that...
...Disease and insanity were the black angels on guard at my cradle," wrote Norway's greatest painter, Edvard Munch, recalling his tormented, sickly childhood. His mother died when he was four, and his physician father became a kind of fanatic, "with periods of religious anxiety which could reach the borders of insanity as he paced back and forth in his room praying to God. When he punished us, he could be almost insane in his violence." The black angels hovered over Munch (pronounced Moonk) to his death in 1944 -and they helped inspire some of the world...
Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. The author, who as a boy sat for his father, the great impressionist painter, now turns portraitist, and his biography is one of the most likable in years...