Word: artzybasheff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artzybasheff, including many of his TIME covers, which was seen by 37,000 visitors in 23 days. Next spring, at Easter time (March 12-April 17), the Center will be showing for the sixth year its No. 1 attraction: Illuminations of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes...
...WHEN my eyes become dim with age and I shall not be able to see the world around me," wrote Boris Artzybasheff some years ago, "I can paint nonobjective abstractions and abstract non-objections." But until he died of a heart attack last July at 66, he did not cease to see the world around him. He resolutely refused to paint abstractions, tirelessly refining the unique style, sometimes bordering on the surrealist, that for over a quarter century he brought to more than 200 TIME covers. A sizable sampling of these original cover paintings, and more than 100 other Artzybasheff...
...Artzybasheff's art is dominated by his famous anthropomorphic machines and his reified visions of various pretensions, neuroses and complexes in sometimes nightmarish forms. But just about anything could set off Artzy's imagination. A Nude with a Snood is his interpretation of an unfathomable phrase overheard at a cocktail party; a primitive piece of sculpture called Connecticut African came from bits of wood picked up in the barn of his Connecticut farm. Artzybasheff's deep hate of tyranny is exemplified in the show by the extraordinary swastika shapes into which he twisted his caricatures...
...Worlds of Boris Artzybasheff" will be open to the public through Nov. 18. We feel that many of our readers will want to join us in revisiting those extraordinary worlds...
...suggest that Time Inc. publish a book of Artzybasheff covers to perpetuate the works of this great artist...