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From a onetime member of the U.S. Army's White House detail came a partial explanation of Sunday Painter Dwight Eisenhower's striking success at capturing likenesses in his portraits. Confessed ex-Private Ray Seide. now art director of a Manhattan ad agency, in an Esquire article: "When...
A bent farmer, seen through the cavern of a big barn, seems the loneliest man on earth. And the open window of an abandoned house fills one canvas with mystery, like a mouth that has much to tell but cannot speak.
Getlein recalled that a few years ago Critic Harold Rosenberg, the man credited with inventing the term "action painting," denounced a canvas by Realist Jack Levine for an odd reason. The painting was of a gangster's funeral, and Rosenberg said that since everyone knew all about gangsters already...
Cincinnati-born Dine hit the Manhattan scene only three years ago, but his name is one to reckon with in avantgarde circles. Like a number of other rebels against abstract art, he began producing art not out of paint and canvas, but out of everyday objects. "I loved the city...
To Find the Constant. Though Mondrian admired the impressionists, he had no desire to follow in their steps. Nor did the cubists go far enough. "Instinctively," he wrote, "I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature." He decided that the colors of...