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...sour and old-fashioned 60, De Chirico loathes surrealism, deplores his own sparkling past. In London last week for an exhibition of his conservative new paintings, he gave a lecture backing up everything that Royal Academician Sir Alfred Munnings had said about modern art the week before (TIME, May 9). Echoed De Chirico...
Then his inquisitors got tougher. His former fellow academician, K. V. Ostrovityanov, warned: "You must know from the history of our party what grave consequences result from stubborn insistence on one's own errors . . ." Finally, last week, like hundreds of other Soviet intellectuals, Varga decided, things being as they are, it was time to retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain...
...support, Munnings turned to Honorary Academician Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...
...precocious son of a Madrid journalist (at seven, he had memorized whole chapters out of Cervantes), Ortega was no mere academician. In 1923 he founded the powerful Revista de Occidente, which became the meeting place of Madrid's intellectuals. He wrote on everything-from Kant's philosophy ("my house and my prison") to donkeys and Don Quixote, art and music...
...started with years of severe schooling, during which Matisse supported himself by copying old masters in the Louvre. ("One must learn to walk firmly on the ground," he told his own students later, "before one tries the tightrope.") When he married at 23, Matisse was considered a rising young academician. Soon afterward, he ruined his reputation; he willfully destroyed a perfectly adequate still life he had just finished instead of sending it to his dealer. "It did not represent me," explained Matisse. "I count my emancipation from that...