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...paintings' titles are arbitrary; Advaitad and Shabda (opposite), for example, means "non-separateness from the impersonal oneness of Brahma" and "a meaningful sound or syllable." The scruffy textures of the paintings suggest weather-beaten walls or the aged face of the earth. Like the art brut, or raw, unpolished art, of France's Dubuffet or Spain's Tapies, these Indian moderns seem to be topographies scarred by glowing fissures, tracks of the varieties of human experience...
However, exception must be taken to your comment that "California's sparkling wines are rarely worth the nose tickling." A small quaffing of bottle-fermented Korbel champagne brut (or sec), Hanns Kornell champagne third-generation brut, or Weibel champagne Pinot Chardonnay brut will certainly prove the worthiness of California "bubbly...
This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a show of 15 modern Polish painters that clearly showed that modern Poland has at least two artists-Jan Lebenstein, 31, whose inch-deep art brut figures are powerful and evocative; and Tadeusz Kantor, 46 (TIME, April 6, 1959), whose impassioned swirls and splashes resemble France's Mathieu and the late Jackson Pollock-as good as any modern currently troweling paint on canvas, plus another baker's dozen far more varied and versatile than most...
...Luigi Nervi of Italy. Despite all this, Corbu was in fact entering the richest phase of his career. Plans that had been locked in his mind for years began tumbling out like coins from a treasure chest. Now came the Marseille apartment block of raw concrete (béton brut), on which the marks of the form boards were left visible. The Society for the Preservation of the Beauties of France denounced it; a large hardware firm refused to sell it locks or hinges, for fear of tarnishing the firm's name. But the experts knew better. "Any architect...
...must be "stripped of all the tinsel, laurels, and buskins in which it has been decked, and must be seen naked with all the creases of its belly. Once disencumbered, it will dance and yell like a madman, which is its function." Dubuffet became the leader of the art brut (raw art) movement, which dedicated itself to the proposition that the only art worth while was "spontaneous," and that those who are the most spontaneous are savages, lunatics and children...