Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike nearly all other portraits, the paintings for TIME'S cover are not commissioned by the subjects and need not necessarily please them; they must satisfy the artist and be acceptable to the editors. They are not expected to be photographic-indeed, like all great portraiture, they must be much more. They have elements of biography, history and, of course, journalism. These elements are brought forth by the artists-each in his own style of execution, each according to his own insights and quite often with his own form of comment. In total, the artists produce the qualities that...
Rich, caught cavorting with a chic matron (Micheline Presle), is cleverly bamboozled into marriage by his blonde secretary (Catherine Deneuve). He divorces her, the better to enjoy her favors when she becomes another man's wife. Brialy, a successful "lay-out artist," jilts his bride (Marie Laforêt) at the altar, leaves for a solo honeymoon m Athens, where he matches wits with a^ vivacious swindler (Françhise Dor-léac, real-life sister of Actress Deneuve), who ultimately becomes his better half...
Arnold Bittleman, another artist who appears to have put in long hours of labor without much success, shows his pastels and drawings at the Kanegis Gallery (123 Newbury St.). This gallery, however, is noted for its fine modern prints. In less reputable places such prints by Picasso, Roult, Chagall and others present dangerous traps for the unwary buyer. Photographic reproductions are often sold as original lithographs and etchings...
...Pace Gallery (125 Newbury St.) is a show of recent wood sculpture by Hugh Townley. He is an extremely talented artist, whose work seems among the most interesting of recent sculpture. I prefer his large reliefs made up of several types of wood, but his oversized "chessmen" and his colored drawings are also fine. Unfortunately, the current exhibit is somewhat thin. There are no recent works of major scale, and I am afraid that the New York branch of this gallery may have sold off the best things there...
...group of energetic ladies who know the field, and they have had several good exhibits since the gallery opened last fall. Just ending now is Richard Merkin's first one-man show in which everything was sold-an extremely rare event for Boston, especially for an unknown artist. His paintings are in the realm of "Pop Art"-the artist calls them "slanted documentaries"-for they comment on popular images. But these works have none of the banal, obvious quality of much Pop; they are clever, painterly, and biting...