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Word: himeself (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levine himeself was once the lastest thing. With Ben Shahn, he dominated the "Proletarian" school of painting fashionable in the laste 1930s. Slum-born (in South Boston) a youthful hater of cops and capitalists, Levine rightly thought himself "equipped to punish." He used his genious for caricature and opulent colors like a jolting left hook to attack what he considered the evils of society. Now a hatchet-faced 39, Levine has simmered down some. "Don't call me angry," he says, with a thin smile. More important, Levine has steadily improved both as a painter and as an ovserver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BUCKING THE TREND | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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