Word: artzybasheffs
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...years, have proved so satisfactory that oils in time may seem as archaic as buono fresco. One in three U.S. artists has already switched to the new medium.* The converts range from Romantic Realist Thomas Hart Benton to Pop's Andy Warhol, from Collagist Alfonso Ossorio to Boris Artzybasheff, who used synthetic paint on the portrait of Lady Bird Johnson that appeared on TIME's cover...
...intent of Artzybasheff to convey the image of a man with a sick mind, he has succeeded admirably. The smirk, the dead color, the vacant eyes-he has painted a most penetrating portrait of Lee Oswald...
...Lady Bird at the White House, Writer Johnson asked how she felt about being the subject of a TIME cover story, and she admitted having "some trepidations" but philosophically quoted Bobby Burns: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Artist Boris Artzybasheff saw Lady Bird partly through her name and designed as a fitting background to her portrait a strong and stylish Artzybird...
...deeply grateful for your generous treatment. The myriad of negatives in my first half-century uniquely generated experiences essential to whatever positives are manifest in my last 18 years. However, if my life provided nought else but legends to ultimately inspire Artzybasheff's cover, my life is fully justified...
...hard for us to think of two subjects that go together better than R. Buckminster Fuller and Boris Artzybasheff. "I can't remember when I enjoyed working on a TIME cover more," said Artist Artzybasheff, after he had finished painting Designer Fuller with a background that includes Fuller's radome, Dymaxion Car, tensegrity octahedron, an example of energetic-synergetic geometry, the 4D apartment house, a Dymaxion mobile laboratory, a demonstration of the omniequilateral, omnitriangulated finite system, and the 15 axes interconnecting opposite mid-points of the icosahedron's 30 edges. But all this, being very Artzybasheffesque...