Word: painterly
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...labor lawyer. Those years are fondly remembered by his two children, Barbara, now 25, and married to a Boston intern, and Robert, now a 20-year-old junior at Amherst. During the summers, Goldberg installed his children and his wife Dorothy, a former social worker and an abstractionist painter, in a two-room cabin on the shores of Lake Michigan; he showed up on Friday nights laden with cartons of Chinese food. Goldberg appointed himself sole arbitrator of family disputes, once ruled that Barbara could not wear lipstick until she was 14. Such decisions were not always popular...
...sized crucifix, using as model his friend, Negro Herbie Hall, a murderer sentenced to life. When the figure of Christ was finished, Hall painted it with gruesome bruises, cuts, and trickles of blood. "We read all the books we could find to see how Christ must have been," says Painter Hall, a Moslem. "It's a little grotesque to some people, I guess, but it's real. We knew it wouldn't be a pretty thing, but a person being crucified wouldn't be pretty." Extra touches of realism: dirty toenails (from walking barefoot through...
...award, the São Paulo Town Hall Prize, went to France's Portuguese-born Vieira da Silva, 53. Large Constructions (see color) is one of ten of her paintings in the show. But Bienal awards are given more for overall achievement than for individual entries, and Painter Vieira da Silva's achievement has been notable (see below). Among the other winners, each of whom received...
...Japan's Yoshishige Saito, 56, Best Foreign Painter. A pioneer abstractionist in his own country, Saito turns out paintings that look disconcertingly like road maps...
...century there lived in China a great painter named Chang Seng-yu, who one day finished a mural of four white dragons without eyes. When observers protested the omission, Chang pointed out that to give such fierce dragons sight might be dangerous. His critics persisted; Chang gave in and painted eyes on two of the dragons. "At once," the story goes, "the air became filled with thunder and lightning, the wall broke down, and the dragons ascended on clouds to heaven. But the two other dragons who had no eyes remained in their places...