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...latest in a long series of portraits Soyer has done of other artists, including Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, John Sloan and many obscure representational painters. This time Soyer's subject is Mervin Jules, now 70, who is viewed, starkly, in an empty room, as a realist icon of aging...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
...revisionist view of his career is perhaps less radical than earlier ones. Here was a provincial man, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in 1541 in Crete, who by the age of 27 had attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During...
...Polish trip would create its own problems. During his moving and momentous Polish tour of 1979, the Pope indicated that he wanted to return in August 1982 for the sixth centennial of the icon of the Black Madonna, the center of the nation's major shrine. Last week, on the very day that martial-law authorities were breaking up demonstrations in a dozen or more Polish cities, the Pope told pilgrims in the Vatican gardens: "I am morally obliged to be together with my countrymen for this great anniversary...I hold this to be a duty of mine...
...based on the belief that art, like religion, must disclose a new order of experience; both could , describe exalted states and epiphianies of the Geist, the spirit. Anything less than that was not worth I having. Being a Russian, Kanmdinsky had been formed by the tradition of the religious icon. But he was also a Theosophist, an ardent follower of one of the most influential gurus of the day, Mme. Blavatsky, and the cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before...