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...amazed, disturbed and delighted to find himself turning his face into a self-portrait. The sequence is one of the most dramatic moments in a film titled The Artificial Paradises, which will be shown on West German television next week. The guiding genie behind the tests was Dr. Richard Hartmann, a Munich psychiatrist and art dealer, working in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry...
...give his project the broadest scope, Hartmann chose artists with differing styles. Some were pure abstractionists, others were from the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Each was asked to bring a recent painting or drawing into the studio for the five-hour trip; after the 100-microgram dose began to take effect, each was asked to center his attention on the subject of the work he brought...
...drawing a pig. "Don't you think that the eyes of a pig have a particularly devout look?" he asked. Suddenly Hrdlicka began drawing symmetrically with both hands at once, something he had never done before. "The simultaneous depiction with both hands may be new to Hrdlicka," says Hartmann. "But it is a well-known archetypal phenomenon that occurs in the art of schizophrenics...
...building's rust-colored Cor-Ten steel girders. Picasso's work gracefully dominated the 78,000-sq.-ft. plaza as much by its delicate airiness as by its mass-both a contrast to the rectilinear building and a foil to the splashing fountains. Said Chicago Architect William Hartmann, who originally had persuaded the 85-year-old artist to design the sculpture (gratis) for Chicago: "Picasso's magic is again at work here...
...hymnbooks are patently incomplete if they do not include his martial hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Less than a generation ago, Luther was scorned-even by Catholic scholars who should have known better-as a sensuous, psychotic, fallen monk, the deliberate destroyer of Christendom. Luther, wrote Jesuit Hartmann Grisar in his 1926 biography, suffered from "an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion...