Word: angelus
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...Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...
...made publishing houses squabble. Harper's, dignified for 100 years, thought its ABC of Technocracy the last word on the subject. John Day was banking on Stuart Chase's "interpretation." The Angelus Press published Towards Technocracy by Graham A. Laing of Caltech, with an introduction by Charles A. Beard. Viking dashed out Life in a Technocracy by Harold Loeb...
Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet's The Angelus, a calm brown picture of a peasant and his wife standing at prayer in the middle of a field. An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes...
When Engineer Pierre Guillard last week whipped out a jackknife in the Louvre and slashed The Angelus five times, stabbed it several times and scratched it in 20 places, he was overcome by a guard, jailed, judged insane. Experts began at once to repair the gashes and stabs. Except for a rent in the sky, all can be made invisible. The picture, though not inimitable, is irreplaceable, hence its value will not be affected by stabs and gashes...
Millet painted The Angelus in 1859 at Barbizon, France, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of French painting. Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...