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Sir: I do not know why you keep putting your joke section under "Art" in your magazine. Artist Johns [Dec. 4] lets his beer go to his head, his beer cans to the canvas, and your Art section to pot!
And yet for all the meticulous care Albright takes (he once painted Lincoln's portrait on each penny in a painting), he is far from being a mere copyist. "Everything in the canvas is fighting," he points out of Poor Room, etc. "Some objects are falling, others are rising...
∙ PIERRE ALECHINSKY, 37, is a balding Belgian who claims that copying nature bores him. Yet, says he, "my work, provoked by emotion and spontaneity, will never be abstract. It will always represent man." But man is a strange creature to Alechinsky, brought up on a tradition of Hieronymus Bosch...
He explains that "The outward and visible sign of this morality in the case of painting is the subject matter as demonstrated upon canvas." In other words, a painting that lacks concrete subject matter, or in which the subject matter has been too much altered, has not fulfilled its moral...
GOYA by Francisco Javier Sanchez Canton. 95 pages followed by 56 plates. Reynal. $100. Some of the double gatefold plates open out to more than 4 ft. in length. The typography is superb, the paper heavy. Each of the 193 reproductions was printed separately and with fanatic attention to accuracy...