Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, Alma's stepfather, a Viennese landscape artist named Carl Moll, was more perceptive. He brought Kokoschka home to paint - and cheer up -his beautiful stepdaughter, recently be reaved of her first husband, the Com poser Gustav Mahler. Alma's verdict: "A handsome figure, but disturbingly coarse." After the first sketching ses sion, Kokoschka stood up, embraced her and then dashed out of the room. A few hours later, she received the first of many proposals from...
...Italy; to gether they braved the snakelike tongues of the gossips in Vienna. Kokoschka decorated the wall over the fireplace of Alma's country house in the Austrian Alps with a mural showing Alma rising from the flames. "I consider I worked very well during that time," the artist recalled last week at Ville neuve in Switzerland, where at 83 he now lives and paints...
THERE is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia," Willem de Kooning once noted, with an artist's lordly disregard for details of engineering. "Duchamp is on it. Cézanne is on it." An imposing retrospective of his work, opening at the Museum of Modern Art this week, demonstrates that De Kooning, still hale and heartily turning out landscapes at 64, has already established his place along that main line...
Middle-aged heads would be more accurate. The autumnal Miss Brodie may believe she is in ascension; actually, she is heading down the up staircase, and every move brings her closer to destruction. Her charges are wise to her romances-with a married artist (Robert Stephens) and a bumbling music master (Gordon Jackson). Their giggles harden into gossip, and Miss Brodie is asked to resign. When she refuses, the administrators lie in wait for her next indiscretion. It is not long in coming...
RANDY DARWALL '70, Harvard's current star undergraduate designer, and Howard Cutler '68, a graduated great, share an artist's concern for developing their work; on the other hand, carpenters learn and innovate, but are less conscious of an evolution. Also, a builder cares less about which play he works on, because he's not involved in interpreting...