Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a show of his singular, science-inspired visualizations enlivened Manhattan's super-surrealistic Art-of-this-Century gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind...
...Beyond this room is a large studio containing sculpture in progress: a huge classical woman's head and a shepherd, also over lifesize, carrying a lamb. I had barely time to glance at these when Picasso appeared. His large dark eyes, which dominate his face, have a brilliant look of tireless alertness, characteristic of animals rather than...
...first half of the concert was brilliant: Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
Born. To Clifford Odets, 38, brilliant leftish playwright of the '30s (Waiting for Lefty), who cashed in on his talents as a Hollywood writer-director (None But the Lonely Heart), and Bette Grayson Odets, 26, his second wife: their (and his) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight...
QUIT FOR THE NEXT-Lieut. Anthony March-Scribner ($2.50). On Luzon, Captain Kilbride and his cavalry unit fight brilliant delaying actions while Refugee Alex Shelby snatches a last moment of love. Fictional warfare as realistic as a newspaper story...