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...Satire. The two dozen sculptors and painters exhibiting in the goldsmiths' 800-piece show have skirted this difficulty. They have ignored diamonds, sapphires and rubies, and in their place found quartz, jade and pebbles to set in hammered or cast gold, silver or bronze. Painter Jean Dubuffet, for example, sets a lump of coal in a ring as an act of intentional satire...
...getting older; I get toothaches and headaches, and there's nothing I can do about it"), Magritte lives in a comfortable unbohemian house near Brussels, quietly damning a good deal of what other artists are doing. He has little use for the "brutalists" like Jean Dubuffet. "I find many things beautiful, such as old walls with spots on them," he says. "But if you tell me a wall with its spots is a painting, I say you're wrong." Nor does he think much of action painting: "It's action, not painting." His own work is part...
...walls, halls, ante rooms and garage of his cubist suburban Brussels home. This week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...
Among the latter are Cesanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Monet's Sunshine (Belle Isle), Gauguin's Portrait of Meyer de Haan, and the Bathers With a Turtle, by Matisse. Also in the collections are Picasso, Annibale Carracci, and Dubuffet...
...come to the point swiftly: it is a stunning show. From a very handsome Madonna by Annibale Carracci, owned by Sydney J. Freedberg, professor of Fine Arts at the University, to a challenging, "uncompositional" Dubuffet, part of Mr. Pulitzer's great collection, the works displayed are of a remarkably high calibre...