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A Satchel of Money. Goulart's real wealth may never be known. The investigators hesitate even to make an estimate. They do know that on the night of the revolution, several large canvas bags were loaded into the plane that flew him south from Brasilia. The contents of at...
RICARDO MARTÍNEZ-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Emerging from a shroud of oil, the monumental figures of Mexico's Martínez strain at the bondage of the canvas' confines as if to divulge some ancient mystery. Through May 2.
JEAN MESSAGIER-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. A small retrospective going back to 1952 shows the growth of a school-of-Paris painter who caresses the canvas with soft shades of green and blue, or swings his brush in long, looping swirls of orange, summoning the rustle of the wind or...
Iconoclasts always end up needing more icons than anyone else. Thus the familiar, revered image is seen everywhere in Russia-framed in classrooms and pasted on peeling walls, idealized on canvas and frozen in marble. It is almost as ubiquitous in China, where it is often carried in processions, shaped...
Breaking Down Gauguin. With jigsaw-puzzle patience, he paints, stretches, and inserts separate canvases within larger paintings, such as his Dyce Head, which goes on view next week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery. Slight variations in the insert's edges lend solidity and weight to the overall emblematic energy of his image. Ortman intends the circles, squares and triangles as external symbols; the results are bright shields of canvas, heraldry for a modern machine...