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Fortunino Matania, 70, thinks every picture should have a woman in it. In his London studio last week he pointed scornfully to the picture on his easel, a group of staid 18th Century English gentlemen in periwigs and ruffles. "Imagine!" said Artist Matania. "They ask me, me of all people, to paint a picture without women. Such sacrilege! Such a crazy world we live...
...Paris is to be original; the next hardest job is to be wilder and woollier than one's associates. Oscar Dominguez achieves the No. 2 aim with distinction. His latest works, on exhibition in a Paris gallery this week, prove that when he settles down before an easel, Dominguez can be wild in a mighty workmanlike...
...French-born interior decorator, Bouché grew up in Manhattan, ran an art gallery in his youth. During the '20s and '30s, he painted "miles and miles" of chic murals, which earned him a lot of money but little self-satisfaction. Today he concentrates on the minor easel-painting he is best at, and to teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. Bouché's students are apt to be startled at first by such obiter dicta as: ¶ "Artists are multiplying to such an extent it's a national disease. Their terrific concern...
...albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...
...viewer could barely tell the flesh from the upholstery, and the girl looked as impersonal as a pillow. But all that had been part of the artist's intention. By smudging out instead of neatly erasing his first hesitant strokes, he gave the picture a hot-off-the-easel look that it would otherwise have lacked. By sticking to foggy greys and muffling the girl's personality in the armchair's embrace, he reduced the drawing to what interested him: an arabesque of harmoniously looping and weaving lines...