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Humble Burlap. For one tapestry, Miró picked up a metal stencil for the letter G and splashed it on upside down in brown against bright yellow canvas. Then he hung the stencil itself on the fabric-also upside down. A handy whisk broom was slapped onto another tapestry. Working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Wonders Out of an Old Craft | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Pollock, born in Wyoming in 1912, painted in an abstract expressionistic style. He laid his canvas flat on the floor, rather than standing it up at an angle.

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Woman Saw 2 Men Putting Stolen Art Into Waiting Car | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

His theme is the folly of moral anarchy, but Ferreri himself holds back: he is a strict, even severe director who allows not one arty shot or lyrical moment to intrude onto his bleak canvas. Slowly, carefully, his film builds, snaring us by its opposing tensions. Porn brushed with intense...

Author: By Foster Hirsch, | Title: What Makes 'The Grande Bouffe' Different From a Porno Movie? | 10/26/1973 | See Source »

To her credit, Hellman is neither a name dropper nor a restaurant and resort recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half-Told Tales | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

As antiart, Duchamp's work became a lunatic cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism−anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Variations on an Enigma | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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