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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRITZ KOENIG-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A host of entities merge in cast bronzes by West Germany's foremost sculptor. From such subjects as an ancient quadriga, Manhattan and a man in a landscape, he fashions a miracle of the union of one life with another. Through...
...grip the gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark commentary...
...Foremost among these is Bill Moyers, only 29 but an on-again, off-again Johnson aide for nearly a decade. After two years at North Texas State College in Denton-where he was twice elected class president-Moyers joined Johnson's Washington staff as a vacation-time helper in 1954, turned in an impressive performance. At summer's end he went home, acquired a journalism degree at the University of Texas while working part time for Lady Bird's television station in Austin...
Ricci became a much-commissioned, much-traveled painter and a foremost influence on others, but with his death in 1729 his fame ebbed away. In 1933, a major Marco Ricci oil sold for a paltry $500. Now renewed interest in Ricci has led to a retrospective of 228 of his works at the Palazzo Sturm near Venice, which before closing last week drew a remarkable total of 47,600 visitors. And the $500 painting has been resold...
...technique as well as ideas Aronson turns to the past. "In a sense, I'd have been at home if I'd lived 600 years ago," he says. He is the U.S.'s foremost master of the ancient and dangerous medium of encaustic, a blend of wax, resin, varnish and oil fused together by heat. His paintings always burst into flame. Says he: "It's like working on a hot griddle, scrambling eggs." The result is a warm, waxy panel more durable and more translucent than oils...