Word: artisticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inadequacies and weaknesses just blare out at you," complained the young artist as he viewed his own one-man show at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me. Jamie Wyeth, 23, Andrew's talented and modest son, had hitched a ride with a lobsterman from his home on Monhegan Island, and almost wished he hadn't come. Even his 1967 portrait of the late John F. Kennedy was disappointing in retrospect. "I'm terribly unsatisfied with it," said Jamie, who never saw J.F.K. in the flesh and completed the portrait from photographs and extensive sketches of the President...
...purpose was to prove the relevance of mass-production technology to the artist's aims. How prescient that idea was can be measured by the fact that today the practice is a matter of course for many artists...
Last week Moholy's rare gifts as teacher, artist, designer and intellectual stimulus were remembered in a 127-piece retrospective exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.* On view was a wealth of paintings, constructions, photographs, films, typographic and industrial designs touching upon every stage of Moholy's development as an artist, and documenting his conception of art not as object but as pure functionalism...
...best education to refine the emotions." His own contributions to that refinement were hard, bright geometry, the equalizing of old and new materials, the applied and the fine arts. These qualities appeal not so much to the often fickle eye but to the intellect. "He was the original artist in a white coat," says the Museum of Contemporary Art's Jan van der Marck, "one of the first to place art in a laboratory situation...
Open Membership. Heiress and Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper enthusiastically endorses Adolfo's notion of dressing in accessories by putting together what she calls "bits and pieces." She provides the bits, Adolfo the pieces. It was Gloria Cooper who caught on early to the patchwork craze, scoured antique shops for rare quilts, and had Adolfo whip up a basic wardrobe of 14 evening skirts for her, "It's kind of spooky-like osmosis," she says of the relationship, "the way we think alike about color and fabric." And, as if that were not enough, Mrs. Cooper adds, "There...