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...Greco was astigmatic [March 3] figures would have appeared elongated to him, but so would his canvas. If he painted precisely as he saw, the effect would have been self-correcting. An astigmatic person may see a circle as an ellipse, but if asked to draw what he sees, he will draw a circle. I bet an eye doctor would back me up that El Greco's elongations were artistic, not optical, aberrations...
...Bachelor Hanna became an art collector soon after graduating from Yale ('13), early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum 1,075 pieces, ranging from furniture, textiles and glass to such prime paintings as El Greco's Christ on the Cross with Landscape, Degas' Frieze of Dancers, Gauguin's Tahitian-period The Call, Picasso...
Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper,* a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected...
Trevor-Roper's lecture stirred some of London's art fraternity to reply. Said Art Director James Laver of the Victoria and Albert Museum: "El Greco? Astigmatism? Admittedly! But the genius begins where the astigmatism ends." What Trevor-Roper had not dealt with was the artist's inner eye, i.e., imagination. William Blake once wrote that "a fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." Perhaps El Greco's inner eye was also astigmatic...
Colette's equipment as a singer includes a resonant, dark-hued voice, meticulous diction, and a direct, snub-nosed charm that audiences find a welcome relief from the involuted agonizings of the Juliette Greco school. Several weeks ago she took a leave from the role that made her famous, moved to Paris' Olympia music hall. With such songs as Zon, zon, zon, L'Orphéon, and Ou va-t-on se nicher?, she brought down the house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms...