Word: painterly
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...never been an action painter, spontaneous and impetuous: he feels that the New York school too often confuses facility with freedom. Up at 6:30 each morning, Downing paints with razor and palette knife, turning out rough-textured canvases that resemble nothing on earth...
Brazil takes for granted the eminence of such of its artists as Painter Candido Portinari and Architect Oscar Niemeyer, but reserves its affection and worried concern for someone else. At 64, Alberto da Veiga Guignard is Brazil's most cherished artist. Poets write about him, collectors pay more for his canvases than for those of any other Brazilian, and Painter Portinari himself has called him "my master." Guignard must be watched every minute of the day: he is the kind of man who has happily traded a $2,500 painting for one bottle of cheap cane alcohol...
...great deal to teach a much wider audience than the few, carefully screened students he admitted to his presence. Along with his friend Violette de Mazia, he wrote some of the most widely discussed art criticism of his time, boasted as good friends such men as John Dewey and Painter William Glackens. Yet to the time of his death at 79, he insisted that his foundation was not running a public gallery but was an educational institution with a "program for systematic work." Four separate taxpayers' suits failed to open the doors...
...churches, Belluschi (a Roman Catholic who has worked as well for Lutherans, Episcopalians and Jews) is responsible for the inclusion of such traditional equipment as candlesticks and crucifixes, calls in such modernists as Sculptor Richard Lippold and Painter Gyorgy Kepes to help. He demands that artists use materials both as contemporary as stainless steel and as old as cathedral glass, to give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal...
...Quintero, 58, of Caracas, Venezuela, was born of humble parents in the Andean village of Mucuchies, near Mérida, won scholarships to continue his education in Rome and eventually became dean of Mérida University's law school. A genial, round-faced scholar and amateur portrait painter. Quintero will be the first cardinal in Venezuela's history...