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...hand; his is a case in which a painter has been more ignored than unknown, since his work has long been embalmed in the musty, state-run Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Not until the Louvre, apparently at the instigation of Culture Minister André Malraux, put on a big Moreau show last summer (TIME, July 21) was the general public suddenly informed that Moreau should be remembered not only as the brilliant teacher of Matisse and Rouault but also as an artist with special pertinence today: alongside his stilted and sickly mythological scenes, Moreau also turned...
...time he was 40. the late André Derain was one of the most successful painters in Paris; no one listing the four or five top names in the French art world in 1920 would have dared to omit his. But by the end of World War II, Derain's name usually came up only to be dismissed with a shrug. One of the original "wild beasts." he has been difficult to appraise; but at its best, his work has also been almost impossible not to like...
Derain's father, a baker, was prosperous enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But André was already painting, and his best friend was the young ruffian Maurice Vlaminck, whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...case of Persephone, the nose is neither ballet nor oratorio nor melodrama. A curiously hybrid work, it was first performed by the dancer Ida Rubinstein in 1934 and calls for a tenor, a chorus and full orchestra, and a leading lady who declaims a French text by André Gide while she dances. Persephone's score ranks with Stravinsky's most tautly constructed music-in his best neoclassic style-but as a stage piece, the work has never caught on. Last week in London. Britain's Royal Ballet tried to bring Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter...
...ARTS OF ASSYRIA, by André Parrot (383 pp.; Golden Press; $25). The extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white...