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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ulanova does not have the biggest mass following in Russia: younger fans prefer 32-year-old Maya Plisetskaya (TIME, May 4). But Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina...
Judges of the show, which was held last week in the Leverett House junior common room, were Leonard Baskin, artist and professor of Fine Arts at Smith College, and Georgy Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T...
...bachelor and onetime commercial artist, Johns works in a neat, spacious loft over a sandwich shop in lower Manhattan, explains his own work more lucidly than the critics have. "It all began," he says, "with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface...
During his short career as commercial artist in fin de si*ecle England, Aubrey Beardsley scored an outstanding success. Unlike most illustrators, he attempted more than a mere commercial art, and he had enough technical equipment to become a significant draftsman of the nineteenth century...
Without a consistently dazzling and imaginative technique, Beardsley's drawings take on an unpleasantly decadent tinge. The super-sophisticated subject matter is not elevated or illuminated by the artist's compassion. Beardsley, one feels, did not really care about most of his work, most notably his slick "fashion ad" drawings for the Yellow Book. He drew the stylish and stylized images well, brilliantly often, but left them lifeless and hollow...