Word: painterly
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...Korean grandmaster. He's been directing for 40 years; nearly 100 features. Chihwaseon, his portrait of 19th century painter Jang Seung-Up (known as Ohwon) is both a biography of an inspired, difficult man and as close as Im is apt to come to autobiography. Like a film director, painters work in public: the brilliant peasant Ohwon is ever surrounded by members of the artist class who, in their cool high hats with wide brims, look like hip Hasidim. He applies his drips and daubs like a performance artist (or like Jackson Pollock, another alcoholic who mistreated his women...
...Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way--music being an abstract art anyway--so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual, was Goya--and there was no other painter in his time who even came near him in that respect...
Most of the Goyas that we rightly regard as his masterpieces were not seen by the public in the artist's lifetime. The Goya we know today is a rounded, far-reaching, almost encyclopedic painter, truly Shakespearean in his range; but the Goya Spaniards knew was largely a portraitist, and that is one of the most pressing reasons for the present show...
...life, or they may just have been spitted on a French saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...
McNichols, 52, sounds weary when he says this, not righteous. After 23 years as a Jesuit priest, he remains deeply loyal to the church. He is a painter, among the most famous creators of Christian iconic images in the world. He has a parish that he speaks about with so much awe, it strains the imagination. And he is enraged by the notion of priests preying on children. But he says he cannot stay silent while all gay priests are blamed for such crimes. "This is an extremely dangerous moment," he says quietly...