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There was smoke right from the first reading. In Anouilh's updating of Euripides' tragedy, Medea is abandoned by her lover, Jason, who takes up with Glauce, daughter of King Creon of Corinth; in retribution, Medea kills her two children by Jason, and murders both Glauce and Creon. Magnani's view was that Medea had got the short end of the stick, that Jason was a no-good porco. Menotti did not quite see it that way. "Jason's story is like every Italian man's," he explained. "He is just a tired...
...Roger Shinn of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "He was as unconcerned with institutions as anyone could be." Time and again through its turbulent, long history, Christianity has heard the voice of its own angry prophets denouncing the established disorder-St. Paul complaining about the immoralities of Corinth, St. Francis rejecting the pomp of the medieval church, Luther fulminating at the luxury of Rome, Kierkegaard howling vainly against the placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell...
GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. A retrospective of the German impressionist, Lovis Corinth, who won artistic fame before his death in 1925. Banned by the Nazis, his work for many years remained obscure in this country (TIME, Sept. 25). Corinth painted hundreds of self-portraits that represent his most powerful work. Through...
Skeleton in the Alphabet. Possibly be cause of the partial paralysis, Corinth's brushstroke took on a slashing angularity, his colors a staccato spectrum. He studied his own face in 50 oils and 60 etchings; none bear the mark of flat tery, and many show a skeleton looking over his shoulder. His moodiness could only be broken by his wife, Charlotte Berend, a painter 22 years younger than he, and he replied by painting her 81 times...
Until his death in 1925, Corinth worked night and day. He opposed the new German move toward expressionism, but his lustiness and his awareness of death gave his art a touch of personal agony that overwhelmed the visible world he painted. "True art," he wrote, "is to depict unreality." And his brusquely applied colors readied the public for the subsequent makers of German expressionism, such as Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka. In awe, one expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, admitted of Corinth: "At first he was mediocrity. At the end, truly great...