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Johns cites his own early paintings, those of his contemporaries (Barnett Newman, for instance) and those of past masters -- Durer, Grunewald, Picasso. His indirectness and liking for allusion coexist with something akin to physical rage: the body parts in his paintings speak of dismemberment, not mere anatomy. His diagonal cross-hatchings are both subtle and banal, for Johns' scrutiny flickers in a perplexing, teasing way between simple pattern recognition and active, probing attention -- so that something quite unremarkable as an image can swell up into a ravishing pictorial event. Sometimes one is excluded; it is like eavesdropping...
...like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the Velasquez portrait of Innocent X in the Doria collection in Rome. There are the Crucifixion motifs, reflections of Grunewald and the Cimabue Crucifixion in Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted, internalized portraits; the stabbings...
...permeating it there is a sense of space, partly of space opened up by the bombing and not yet planned for that belies the island nature of the city. Much of it--the vast Tiergarten in the center of the city, the forests and lakes of the Grunewald on its edge--has been part of the shape of the city for a long time. Perhaps the sense of contained wildness--the sense one gets from the grassy fields and forests of the Tiergarten, from the foot-high grass in a museum courtyard, or from the areas like golf course rough...
About $3,000,000 worth of West German and Japanese Christmas toys were tied up in Philadelphia, where the port was closed last week after a temporary injunction barring the strike had expired. Other shipments were stalled in New Orleans. The Crescent City's Grunewald Music Co., a dealer for Yamaha pianos, was forced to lend a piano to the local Playboy Club when a new one was stranded on a ship. Because of the growing trend toward using foreign-built components in U.S. products, the strike is bound to have a large effect on some major American manufacturers...
...already addressed to him. Three weeks ago, the Shah of Iran even cabled congratulations to him. Sitting as an electoral college, Congress last week finally made it official by voting him into office, 293 to 0, with 76 abstentions. At the same time, right-wing Admiral Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grunewald was named Vice President...