Like her American counterpart, Abad—a native of Basco, Batanes, in the Philippines—was also both an expressive painter and a master of the narrative quilt, embracing and elevating a medium long dismissed for its folksy domesticity.—Raymond Ang, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024 Any painter could be the next Rothko or Basquiat; any singer could be the next Joni or Aretha.—Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024 Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and edited by Cristóbal Pera
Susan Tallman
How American Eyes Got Modern
The midcentury ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters.—David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2024 Stone is kind of like the weird painter of the band.—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024 For me, as a painter, this atmosphere is ideal and inspiring.—Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024 The most fateful encounter comes early on, when a wealthy New Yorker hires Ripley to travel to Italy to lure his playboy son, an aspiring painter named Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to come back home.—Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 Once the larger community of graffiti artists became aware of the wide-open towers in early February, it was hit by a tidal wave of painters armed with spray cans, rollers and pens.—Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024 Sousa said the war work was a family effort: Her two sisters, Phyllis and Marge, were welders and her mother Mildred was a spray painter.—Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (2)
Middle English paynter, probably from Middle French dialect (Normandy) pentoir, penteur clothesline, from pendre to hang — more at pendant
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