Word: pointillist
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...Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books for inspiration, turns the actual execution over to apparently myopic artisans to reproduce...
...POINTILLIST PAINTINGS-Hirschl & Adler, 21 East 67th. More than 60 works by 19 exponents of the neo-impressionist technique that built up form through the juxtaposition of tiny stippled dots of brightly contrasting colors. Among the masters of the school: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Lucie Cousturier, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hippolyte Petitjean, Camille and Lucien Pissarro. Through...
...Houston show, Derain is at one moment a pointillist, painting with dots (see color), at other moments he is under the spell of Van Gogh or Cézanne. But in his whole work, the old masters are also present, for unlike Vlaminck, Derain spent hours copying in the Louvre. "I do not innovate," he explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into...
...moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again, or rather sealed") and, in the New Realists' fashion, sets down the slightest detail with the pointillist's fanatic care. Yet his prose-wind's repeated excesses, by equating the important with the trivial, reinforce a savage statement of meaninglessness...
...uncompromising standards even at the cost of sharp criticism (e.g., the Manchester Guardian called his decision against Churchill "rather hoity-toity"), Rich has kept Chicago at the top of big league U.S. museums. He originated a score of important shows, most recently the exhibition of paintings by Pointillist Georges Seurat that was threatened by fire last month while on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (bringing Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section...