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Living in the hatchery of cubism, the expatriates' studio in Paris' Rue Ravignan, known as the Bateau Lavoir, Gris was not in at the beginning. He started as a cartoonist and illustrator, and did not even start to paint until 1910. His first cubist pictures belong to 1912, five years (a long time in the avantgarde) after Picasso painted his seminal and outrageous Demoiselles d'Avignon, the five women bathers with bodies of planes and angles. Gris' importance to modern art rests on about ten years of productivity. His work weakened into phlegmatic...
...jokes and irreverent manipulation as it was about balance, as Rosenthal points out. For cubism was created by a high-spirited clique of young outsiders, reacting to the pervasive, ephemeral surface of Parisian culture with puns and gossip, the arcane jokey language of their own group. As a former cartoonist, Gris delighted in this "Pop" view of his tunes, and it suffuses some of his best paintings. The Man at the Café, 1914, looks at first like a conventional cubist figure, the clues to its presence being the hat, the blue hand holding a newspaper, and the stein...
DIED. George Lichty, 78, creator and cartoonist (from 1932 to 1974) of the satirical Grin and Bear ft, syndicated at its peak in more than 300 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif. His distinctive one-panel series was neither comic strip nor editorial cartoon, though his jokes grew more topical. One regular character, the bombastic Senator Snort, was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who owned twelve original Lichty cartoons...
EXPECTING. Jane Pauley, 32, co-host of NBC's Today Show whose 1981 pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and Garry Trudeau, 34, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist, currently on sabbatical from his Doonesbury comic strip: twins, their first children; in December...
George Bush once remarked that he wanted to restore the stars to the eyes of the third graders. I think the third graders might prefer to have their lunches restored." Trudeau told the receptive crowd which interrupted the cartoonist several times with applause...