Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he began serving a sentence for parole violation at Minnesota state prison at Stillwater, Richard C. Jackson had never been considered an artist. But in 2% years, the 53-year-old printer developed a keen aesthetic eye as well as an appreciation for shading, contrast and tone. Working laboriously in the prison's printing shop, convict Jackson came up with an amazingly good portrait of Andrew Jackson, a nice rear view of the White House and passable reproductions of the filigree found on a U.S. $20 bill. When his sentence expired in March, he loaded up a cardboard...
Hedi managed him, mothered him-and watched their marriage fall apart. "We were still young when we married, and we just grew in different ways," says Solti today. Whatever the reason, Solti was soon known as the possessor of a wandering eye. All the old jokes about the casting couch were dragged out. There was gossip that he gave his paramours a white fur coat-and that there was an exorbitant number of white-coated women around London...
...eye finally settled in 1964 when, at 52, he met and fell in love with Valerie Pitts, 27, a reporter sent to interview him for BBC-TV. They lived together for two years ("It was a violent affair," understates Solti) until Hedi and Valerie's husband James Sargant, a theater executive, obtained divorces in 1966. Solti and Valerie married the next year. Hedi now is married to Patrick O'Shea, a landowner in Ireland...
...oddly scal loped red rocks; the delicate twist of tree trunks echoing the borders of the girls' saris. Indeed one of the pleasures of Indian miniatures lies in how nature is formalized while losing none of its vitality. In that flattened space, each shape presses up to the eye as firmly as in any Matisse. But the energy remains. The rolling, sinuous line of one great Deccan miniature, Subduing an Enraged Elephant, becomes a short hand for movement; every detail, from the trampling caparisoned beast (whose wicked eye occupies the center of the page) to the Persian curves...
...cumulative notation, airy, insubstantial and very delicate. The process of seeing and the act of drawing are telescoped together. Each mark is a deciphering of the bewildering flux of impressions that beat upon the eye. Arikha's work seems both provisional and irrevocable...