Word: cremonini
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...gallery owned by Pierre Matisse, son of Painter Henri Matisse. The Perls Galleries represent Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate of Max Beckmann...
...Cremonini's Woman...
...showed the picture titled A Woman [TIME, Jan. 18] to my six-year-old daughter. She said, "Criminy!" I said, "No, Cremonini." But I think she was nearer right...
...main element of Cremonini's paintings is force. His father cultivates a gentle sensibility while coaxing locomotives up to 75 miles an hour; the son works up power standing before an easel. Among his early subjects were slaughterhouse carcasses-gleaming slabs of meat and bone which caught his eye in the local abattoirs. Later came the fishermen and bathers of Ischia, where he is living, and rock-hard women like the one at right. He works on as many as 20 canvases at once, explains that "they are all slowly maturing...
...same may be said of Cremonini himself. He still limits himself to simple shapes, smooth textures and cold colors, expresses little besides pity and terror. But Cremonini's art has the growing vitality eventually to crack its own limitations. Once the clumsiness and harshness that now constrict him are thawed away, the engineer's boy may well start highballing down the artistic track...