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...flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics. The ironical love with which he raided the beaux-arts tradition for such images as Napoleon, a reworking of David's 1812 portrait of the hero, struck them as literary but in the wrong way: not philosophical enough, unconcerned (unlike Johns and Rauschenberg) with the semantics and sign structure of art. The new celebrity artist was the cool...
...personal works find favor with modern architects and interior designers, who like the handmade, one-of-a-kind individuality they bring to austere apartment and office buildings. They also appeal to the young. A few weeks ago a white-bearded professor from France's tradition-bound Academic des Beaux-Arts asked Sheila Hicks to give a course in tapestries, "but not the factory kind." To his young students, even the highly abstract "woven paintings" of Mategot are out of date...
...term derives from the days when French architecture students at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts used a two-wheeled cart, or charrette, to pick up their design drawings. Sometimes, guided by some final inspiration, they worked hastily en charrette during the trip to the school...
...worry about last week. First, she won an Oscar for her witty and sympathetic portrayal of the title character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Then, the night after the award, Maggie's opening performance in London's National Theater production of Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (TIME, Feb. 2) won glowing reviews and further enhanced her reputation in England, where at 35 she is already the leading actress of her generation. All of which only left her rather numb and glum amid the flowers in her dressing room at the Old Vic. "Everybody seems...
Jacques Lecoq, professor of dramatic movement at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts in Paris, will discuss "Sport and Permanent Education" at 12:15 p.m. today in Lehman Hall...