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...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
...abroad last week. At Venice's "Biennale," the U.S. pavilion (featuring the wild & woolly abstractions of Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock -TIME, June 12) was getting silent treatment from the critics. It was even worse in London, where a U.S. exhibition of "symbolic realists" (Paul Cadmus, Peter Blume, Walter Murch, Andrew Wyeth, et al.) was on; there the critics spoke...
Miss Martha Blume, activities director at the North End Union, claims that the "turnover among this high school group is naturally large. Most of the youngsters drop out as soon as they pass their courses, but every time report cards come out a swarm of parents descend, on as with their flunking children...
...Placid. Born in Russia, Blume was brought to the U.S. at five, grew up in Brooklyn. He went to work at 13 as a lithographer's apprentice, studied art on the side. At 18 he got an advance from a Manhattan gallery so he could paint fulltime. ("I've been able to get along by just painting ever since, though things haven't always been rosy.") Now 42, he lives with his wife in a small house in Sherman, Conn. His daily schedule is "just getting up and going to work. Nothing ever interferes with that...
Does he enjoy his work? That, Blume says, is "an awkward question. By enjoyment I usually mean sensuous pleasure, and it certainly isn't that. You don't always enjoy the thing you're possessed by, but you have...