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...favorite word. Nowhere does his work show a sign of the metaphysical yearnings of the New York school, still less its primitivism. Porter's was very much a modernist vision, but classically so; its main source was Paris, and its exemplars were the great Intimists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. From them, as Agee notes in his catalog essay, Porter learned to "paint what you know, what is given to you, what is in front of you, and let the painting speak for itself...
...Edouard Balladur got right down to business: at his first Cabinet meeting, the new French Prime Minister ordered his 29 ministers to trim their own operating budgets 10% as a first step toward slashing a projected $55 billion deficit. President Francois Mitterrand named Gaullist Deputy Balladur to lead the government following elections that gave the conservative alliance 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats, leaving Mitterrand's Socialists with only 54 seats...
...huge majority of about 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats in this past Sunday's runoff. That will leave Socialist President Francois Mitterrand to "cohabit" with a hostile rightist majority until his term ends in 1995. His probable choice as Prime Minister: R.P.R. Deputy and former Finance Minister Edouard Balladur...
With Bill Clinton in charge, Roussel Uclaf may be reconsidering. Its president, Edouard Sakiz, met with FDA Commissioner David Kessler and agreed in principle that the U.S. should have RU 486. Sakiz prefers that another firm handle distribution. If he finds one, a large clinical trial could soon begin...
Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life...