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Sleights of Art. The immediate father figures of op art are Josef Albers, 76, that pioneer in the perception of color, and Victor Vasarely, 56 (see opposite page), a Hungarian who lives in Paris. Albers paints only colored squares. Vasarely dons the craftsy lab coat instead of the smock and refers to his work as visual research. Their influence has given birth to optical artists in a dozen countries, from Israel's Yaacov Agam to remote Iceland's poet-painter Diter Rot. Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta...
Died. Archbishop Josef Gawlina, 71, leader of the Polish Catholic community in Rome, who was driven from Warsaw by the Communists in 1947; of a heart attack a few days after climbing the steps of St. Peter's, though weary and infirm, to speak on Marian devotion before the Vatican Council...
...Martin Luther has been spoken of before in St. Peter's Basilica; last week, for the first time, he was mentioned favorably. At the Vatican Council, bolstering his argument to give the Virgin Mary a new title of honor, Polish Archbishop Josef Gawlina cited Luther's devotion to her and quoted him as saying, in his exposition of St. John's Gospel, that "she does not want to lead us to herself but, through herself...
Casaroli, who recently negotiated the disposition of Roman Catholic property with Moslem Tunisia, took over the job of dealing with Hungary from Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König. Originally, the Vatican tried to arrange the departure of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest, hoping that an agreement about the status of the church in Hun gary would follow. When that approach failed, Casaroli started dickering for some freedom for the church, on the theory that sooner or later a solution to Mindszenty's problem might be found...
...German and Cherokee Indian parentage, Rauschenberg served as a naval corpsman until the end of World War II. A talent for sketching led him to the Kansas City Art Institute, then on to Paris. In 1948 he read in TIME that the greatest art disciplinarian in the U.S. was Josef Albers, and returned to study with him at North Carolina's Black Mountain College. "I consider Albers the most important teacher I've ever had," says Rauschenberg, "and I'm sure he considers me one of his poorest students." Albers says he wasn't quite...