Word: afro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fateful June day in 1947, when General George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, rekindled Europe's war-deadened spirits with his promise of massive infusions of U.S. financial help, economic aid has been one of the most effective instruments of U.S. foreign policy. But at Cairo's Afro-Asian Conference last week (see below), Soviet representatives were gleefully hammering away at a new theme: "The capitalists no longer have a monopoly of credit and machinery. The Socialist countries are really giving...
...Time for Turkomans. The conference's origins lay not in Cairo but in India, where 2½ years ago a pro-Communist Ihdian M.P. named Anup Singh organized the "Asian Solidarity Committee" to influence the first Afro-Asian conference at Bandung (TIME, May 2, 1955). Last year Singh approached Nasser, suggested a conference in Cairo as a suitable sequel to Bandung. It was a play on words. The delegates to the Bandung conference had been official representatives of their nations, many of them heads of their governments. The delegates to the Cairo conference officially represented nobody but themselves. Unofficially...
Always the Memory. Painter Afro, 45, now showing 19 of his latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...Afro's memories go back to his childhood at Udine, near Venice, where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...
Most Poetic. The outstanding painting in Afro's current exhibition is his 5-ft.-by-6½-ft. L'Uccello del Tuono (Thunder-bird). The title did not come to Afro until after four months of work on the canvas, when, he says. "I saw something flying, something thundering. I thought of flying, of a witch; then I realized it was a kind of bird." Afro depends on his memory to service him with poetic imagery, finds that not only themes but colors seep in from his surroundings (the grey-green of Serene Stone comes from Florentine tombstone...