Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"We are now taking three steps back to jump over the wall that leads to the unknown," said Painter André Marchand. An exhibition of four dozen new Marchand canvases in a Paris gallery last week underlined his words. Critics praised the pictures to the skies ("one of the most...
The least of his new pictures seemed to radiate light. There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life." Marchand hates the term nature morte, never uses it. "Nature," he says, "is never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot...
Like any show of its kind, the annual exhibition of contemporary U.S. art that opened in Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week bulged with duds. Artists not invited to exhibit would consider the show too small, but for gallerygoers it was far too big. Of the 161 painters represented...
Yet the abstract wing of the show included some startlingly original pictures. Morris Kantor's Lonely Bird knit the shapes of buildings and trees together with looping lines and high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold...
But, admitted Erck, "the girls do study now and then and sometimes they produce quite excellent results." When they do poorly, "they take their penalties like men, and if under the weight of their trials . . . they do allow themselves to burst into tears . . . they become very angry with themselves. This...