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...latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist, Giacomo Balla, and dated 1912, is clearly a harbinger...
...Stations of the Cross, he could fall back on a ready-made iconography. The fifth painting, he knew, must represent Simon helping Christ shoulder the cross. Not so for an abstract painter, who must face the problem of portraying the progression toward Calvary without the props of episodic, cartoon-strip clarity, and at the same time strive to render its essential agony. Barnett Newman, 61, the most abstract of the U.S. abstract expressionists, made the problem even harder: he resolved to limit himself to his own astringent style, depict Christ's passage in stark vertical chords, using only black...
...circles, anxious labyrinths and hysterical lines, not to mention stickpin Indians, Uncle Sam sphinxes, and cats and dogs and question marks, all up on the wall. As Frenchmen filed through Paris' Galerie Maeght last week rubbernecking, chuckling and occasionally snorting, the scene seemed readymade for a Saul Steinberg cartoon. As a matter of fact, Steinberg probably will make a cartoon of it-it's his show...
...what they mean, Steinberg likes to leave that up to the viewer. "People who see a drawing in The New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie, they think it's a prediction." In many ways, his message is best conveyed by his pages of elaborate, cursive script, in which the occasional images are understandable while the words are illegible. "Words are like vitamin pills," he explains. "We swallow them...
...Hanna-Barbera animated-cartoon special. Sammy Davis Jr. provides the voice of the Cheshire cat, Zsa Zsa Gabor that of the Queen of Hearts, Bill Dana the White Knight, and the late Hedda Hopper Madame Hatter...