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...simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
...greatest artists Russia ever produced were the profoundly religious painters of icons of 15th Century Novgorod and Moscow. Their serene holy families and saints, compacted of austere line and pure color, were a legacy from Byzantium. But icon-painting went out of fashion when Peter the Great imported more sophisticated Western painting (along with field artillery, shaving and ballroom dancing) in the 18th Century...
...seven men and two women met as D.P.s in Hamburg at the end of World War II, organized a school of Russian arts & crafts to fill their idle hours. Soon they had learned enough about the ancient art of icon-painting to fill commissions for Greek Orthodox churches in Britain, France and Belgium...
...artists, who range in age from 19 to 45, has much to say. Several have relatives there. Says Anatoly Abramov, once a Soviet architect: "For different reasons and in different ways, we had come to a deeply religious time. We felt we could express our feelings best through the icon...
...Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But .... by Richard Aldington. A lively life of the icon-smashing author of Lady Chatterley's Lover (TIME...