Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current exhibit at the Ward Nasse Gallery (118 Newbury St.) should be of interest to the Harvard community, for it shows the recent drawings of Albert Alcalay, instructor in Drawing at the Carpenter Center. The story of this artist's success seems almost story-bookish. Imprisoned in 1941 for being a Yugoslavian Jew, he talked his way out of one concentration camp by persuading a Nazi colonel that his artistic future should not be destroyed. Recapture, in another camp, he used his abilities to forge false documents and again he escaped. After the liberation, he made his way to Rome...
Harold Tovish, another well-known artist, is exhibiting his work at the Swetzoff Gallery (119 Newbury St.) One of this sculptor's fine heads is now on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. In his recent work, however, he seems to have gone spectacularly astray perhaps under the influence of Pop art. Here he is displaying pieces constructed since 1962, with prices starting at $6000. I am puzzled about why such an artist and a gallery should go to so much trouble over objects of so little interest, but perhaps other will disagree...
...couldn't be Nureyev on the cover of TIME. Where is the fierceness of this Tartar, the aggressiveness and the ever-present savage mystery? The colors the artist chose would have been better utilized for illustrating Dame Fonteyn...
...ripe age of 77, Marc Chagall last week became a doctor - of fine arts. At his honorary hooding at the University of Notre Dame, the Russian-born artist who has painted cows jumping over the moon and orbited lovers, flowers and folklore, Chagall had a few words for U.S. academics...
...guiding this boat and how to sail it? I see the life of everyday peoples and things as through a tear. I try to offer them, as I can, a plastic reflection." Mixing his metaphors as brightly as he does his oils, Chagall concluded that "the role of the artist is tragic today because, while the world's horizons have been extended, the human heart is as small as ever...