Word: painterly
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Rigidly sectarian novels or films, particularly if they are at once both French and Catholic, are often difficult to evaluate, presenting, as they do, a narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
...There is no such thing," Mark Rothko once said, "as good painting about nothing." Yet if there is a painter alive who appears to be painting nothing, it is Rothko. Line, subject, perspective-all are gone; says Rothko himself: "You have here nothing-but content...
...attended Yale, dropped out to ''wander around, bum about, starve a bit." It was not until 1925, when he was 22, that he settled down in Manhattan to attend Max Weber's art classes at the Art Students League. He did not stay long. As a painter, Mark Rothko is almost wholly self-taught...
Lawrence, Jacob, Negro painter, who uses bright colors to record sorrowful moods. See ART, and two pages of color...
...nearly two decades, critics have called Jacob Lawrence, 43, "the top U.S. Negro painter"-a race-conscious title that tends to blur his individual style. While the dominant school of abstract art has steadily fled the image, Lawrence goes right on telling simple, straightforward stories. If any artist or style ever influenced him, he cannot quite pin down who or what or when. He has always been his own man, and his very lack of complexity makes him something of a puzzle. "Painting is like handwriting," he says. "Every person has his own style, and my style is just something...