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...cover portrait of General Norstad was painted by Italy's Pietro Annigoni in three two-hour sittings while the general listened to Tchaikovsky on his hi-fi set. Said Annigoni of Norstad: "Very intelligent, very sympathetic, very American." Said Norstad of Annigoni: "A no-nonsense kind...
Stepping off a ship in Manhattan, Florentine Artist Pietro Annigoni, whose straightforward canvases are as unminced as his words, quickly ticked off a number of his benighted contemporaries and their works. Of protean Pablo Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What...
Britain's art circles, as well as common folk beyond the esthetic perimeters, were stewing and snarling about a 6-ft. portrait of Prince Philip, the work of Italy's able Pietro Annigoni and the most debated sensation of the Royal Academy's new exhibition. Cried the London Daily Mall's critic: "If he really is like that, I shouldn't like to meet him in the dark." Rasped the Daily Mirror: "A very good pavement artist's job." "I wonder what the Queen thinks of [it]," mused the Star's observer...
Mortal Wounds. "What is interesting" about a masterpiece, Painter Annigoni argued, is always "the surface as the master left it, aged, alas! as all things age, but with the magic of the glazes preserved, and with those final accents which confer unity, balance, atmosphere, expression-in fact all the most important and moving qualities in a work of art. But after these terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found...
...Annigoni's letter drew a fervent "amen" from Bernard Berenson, dean (91) of Renaissance art experts: "It says everything I have been wanting to say for many years past about the iniquity of the way Italian pictures particularly are being skinned alive by restorers." Other letters pointed out various masterpieces in London's National Gallery which may have ceased to be masterpieces through too much cleaning. Among them: pictures by Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, and even Leonardo's great Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo's figures, wrote one angry correspondent...