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...throughout his life has spent most of each year in his native land, he was deeply embittered over the Spanish Civil War. For five months in 1936-37, he labored over one canvas, the Still Life with Old Shoe, which would, he hoped, be simple enough for the humblest Spanish peasant to appreciate. His anguish is mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving and, by means of painting of another kind, to get in closer contact with the masses, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Father for Today | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...Richard Ahlborn, that go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this month. Silver was plentiful in colonial Peru, and Andean artisans used it for both religious and household articles. Grandees' stirrups alone weighed as much as 40 lbs., and in even the humblest Indian homes were found silver incense burners and boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Half-Breed Brilliance | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...Problems in finding heart donors have been eased by the drama of the first transplant, with the appealing element that the humblest accident victim might, by the donation of his heart, confer the gift of life on another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Fascination & Lessons | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist-but in the lambent light of a brooding romantic who saw beauty in the humblest barber pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Certain Alienated Majesty | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artificial Organs: Corneas from Calf Skin | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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