Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Which," "Ah God" are all painted by cheerful little grey-haired Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who works happily in the husk of an abandoned Methodist Church in Warrenville, Ill., an hour's drive outside Chicago. All three pictures have a microscopic detail that is more real than real life, a funereal rose and lavender cast, all are of subjects which look worn and battered by eternity...
...Ivan Albright calls himself a super-realist, says of surrealism: "I don't like tags. Surrealism means 1941-and a New Year is just around the corner." Some pictures, such as the wreath on a mortuary door, which he calls "That Which," take him as long as ten years to finish. The mortuary door last month won a $500 prize at the Institute (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1938 came in third in the Carnegie International's popularity contest. It's an eight-foot picture of a decayed and time-cracked surface, on which detail swarms like ants...
Back in the U.S. after the war, Ivan Albright set up his studio in Warrenville with his artist father, Adam, now 79 (who founded the family fortune in real estate), and his twin brother Balvin (who prefers the name Zsissly, so he will come last in catalogs). There Ivan started developing the macabre, superphotographic style that has made him one of the most original figures in U.S. art. Because his portraits looked as though their subjects had been removed from newly opened graves, nobody gave him commissions. So Painter Albright painted himself. One of his self-portraits, an imaginative picture...
Samara was founded at the easternmost bend of the Volga River in the 16th Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the 19th Century there was a great influx of Poles and Germans-particularly from Danzig...
...Logan prize ($500) went to Manhattan Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli for a smooth-cheeked limestone portrait head. Chicago's Ivan Le Lorraine Albright got a $500 prize for a queer, meticulously detailed picture of the door of a mortuary chamber. He called it That Which I Should Have Done...