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...Trappist monastery that "transformed" him. Today he tries to "create works which reflect my thirst for harmony and unity." His "meditations in paint" are vivid abstractions that combine warm, bright Fauve-like colors with the restrained forms of cubism. ¶ Jean Dubuffet, the chief barnstormer for "I'art brut" (raw art), who mixes a thick paste of colors with sand and even ashes, constantly changes his style because "I am unstable and anxious." Using as his point of departure children's scrawls and the art of the insane, he is convinced that "art has much to do with...
...having his first one-man show in Manhattan at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Scott's ominous saucepans owe something to the slick stick school of France's Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), just as his segmented, all-red nudes do to Jean Dubuffet's art brut. But placed alongside Manhattan's avant-garde painting they look right at home...
...Grand Maneuver. René Clair, vintage 1956, brut-a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gérard Philipe (TIME...
...Grand Maneuver. Rene Clair, vintage 1956, brut-a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe (TIME...
...Golden Greek," is a blurred montage of shipboard launching parties, at which he bestows diamond bracelets and gold Faberge cigarette boxes on the beautiful and highborn women (e.g., the Duchess of Kent) who christen his ships, repartee in the royal enclosure at Ascot, champagne flowing like home brut in the nightclubs of London and Paris. Unlike most legends, it is woven from whole fact...