Word: artzybasheffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artzybasheff's missile is excellent. With its implications for all of us, it is also one of the most horrible pictures I have ever seen...
...plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn's splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff ... It was one of Artzybasheff's best...
This week Artzybasheff publishes his first book of drawings and paintings, As I See (Dodd, Mead; $7.50). With good-and ill-humored grotesqueries, he pokes at modern man's neuroses, pretensions and follies. But the hard core of his book is a gallery of his humanized turret lathes, planers and millers. Looking at his portrayal of dutiful monsters, complete with attentive eyes and busy hands, laymen as well as engineers usually can understand at a glance what both Artzybasheff and the machines have on their minds...
...Artzybasheff, who was born in Kharkov (1899), the son of a well-to-do Russian author, began to doodle with grotesque and weird creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...Today Artzybasheff divides his time between his own advanced doodling (i.e., more grotesqueries) and the heavy demands of clients who believe that he is the machine age's best interpreter. Success has brought one particularly vexing headache: inevitably, some of his sexier animations and distortions have offered a field day for amateur psychoanalysts. Says he: "I get irritated with those damn Freudians. They try to see something in everything. I think there is something wrong with their minds...