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...Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and a researcher and writer on evolution and natural selections, will become Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on July 1. He will succeed Alfred S. Romer, who also holds an Alexander Agassiz Professorship...
...accentuate it; you see a beak, something else becomes an animal. It is a discovery trip, but you never know what you will find.'' To produce the intricately jeweled Eye of Silence, Ernst placed two wet painted canvases together, pulled them apart, let his fancy take over. At one time Ernst even experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this...
...Ernst's world of fantasy, the image is never lost, though it can be marvelously elusive. Machines are almost people, plants grow eyes and arms, human figures are bits of geometry, strips of wallpaper become layers of geology, a forest could easily be an ancient ruin, and a ruin might seem to be made up of human organs...
Almost every being and thing on Ernst's earth wears a borrowed mask...
...artist he ranks high, but perhaps his greatest charm is that he never gets overwhelmed with the importance of being Ernst. All his life he has cherished a private spirit called "Loplop, Bird Supe rior.'' and this is typical of the man who has never wholly deserted childhood. If he has his nightmares, they are quickly over, for his very next painting will brim with laughter. Even his barbarian hordes seem a trifle whimsical, as if they were spooks that a child might see in the shad ows. Just as the image refuses to be itself...