Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...subjects, we have had cover stories which discussed the way in which artists through the ages have depicted the real news of Christmas, the birth of Christ. There was Gerard David's painting of The Nativity in 1945 and, two years later, the Madonna and Child by Renaissance Painter Alesso Baldovinetti...
...these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...
Winner of the 1950 Academy of American Poets' $5,000 fellowship: Painter-Poet E. E. (Tulips and Chimneys) Cummings...
Warm Embrace. The only topnotch painter shown at peak performance was Buffalo's Charles Burchfield, who had somehow managed to slip a watercolor into an exhibition of oils. His Dark Ravine was menacing as an abyss by Fuseli, but richer, and lacking all pretension...
...from birthday candles to murals until his bird pictures caught on twelve years ago. Now, at 55, he has more work than he can handle. Sure of his talent though he is, Menaboni swoops on praise as voraciously as the next artist. His favorite tribute was from a fellow painter who looked at one of his pictures and said...