Word: painterly
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...Events," says Robbins, "is not Les Sylphides"; it is light-years away from that serenest of classic white ballets. If it has any theme, it is simply the "fantastic confusion that the ordinary day holds for everyone." The idea was suggested by Composer Robert Prince and Painter Ben Shahn, who collaborated with Robbins on one of his most popular recent works, New York Export: Opus Jazz. The three of them, meeting informally and often, kept adjusting music, choreography and set designs as they went along, improvising freely. Six hours before curtain time, Robbins' talented Ballets U.S.A. troupe had still...
...Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
...fined him 200 lire and sentenced him to six months in prison. The sentence was not particularly harsh, for Crivelli, it seems, had abducted a married lady named Tarsia and kept her hidden in his brother's house for months. The court records refer to him as a painter, and historians think that he may have been about 25 at the time. But aside from this adventure in "abduction, adultery and concubinage," the few scraps known about Crivelli indicate a perfectly respectable life...
...Loner. Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
Died. James Amory Sullivan, 88, architect and painter who expatriated himself to Europe for 30 years to restore the works of the Renaissance, then chucked it all in 1950 to lead a party of seven other reluctant socialites on an abortive, civilization-fleeing cruise to the Windward Islands; of a heart attack, in Winchendon, Mass. Proclaimed Sullivan, as the schooner Blue Goose glided into the horizon: "We're fed up [with society]. We are tired of pretense and the false way of life." The idyl lasted six months...