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"There seems to be just one thought in the minds of pedestrians-to go on from queue to queue, from the one that stretches behind the bus stop to the one that lines up in front of a stubbornly shut shop window, where dried fish may or may not eventually...
One of these disgraces to Cro-Magnon man was stabled at the Gotham Hotel. "This canvas inspector finished several breakfasts one Sunday morning," Fowler tells in one of the book's funnier anecdotes, "and was trying to read the comic pages of the American. He had just about mastered...
The son of a Dutch figurative painter, Klein took to art after briefly trying his hand at training race horses in Ireland and then at professional judo wrestling in Japan. He found that working with brushes was too finicky, so he bought himself a paint roller that could cover even...
Some of Klein's early paintings were all green, some all red, still others orange. But Klein's favorite color is I.K.B. (International Klein Blue), which has something to do with the space age. In Krefeld last week there were generous expanses of I.K.B., some "living brush" canvases, and a few paintings that looked as if they had been left out in the rain. They had. Klein produced The Wind of the Voyage by strapping a large I.K.B. canvas to the radiator of his car and driving through a storm. Says he: "It gives me a feeling that...
Second Norman Rockwell. He remained schizophrenic to the end. He prospered in the U.S., seemed blind to the Depression, was so contented on canvas that some admirers began to wonder whether he might not have been serious when he said that he would like to be a second Norman Rockwell...