Word: kokoschka
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...that thing in your May 5 Art section Adele Astaire in 1926? Bosh! Oskar Kokoschka must have seen his sitter through his own tortured "inner life...
With your permission, I'd like to give my opinion of the Kokoschka picture of my sister. I think it's a hideous mess. As great an artist as this man may be today, he certainly goofed in 1926. My sister is a very pretty girl...
...meet Dancer Adele Astaire, Kokoschka was taken backstage after one of her London performances of Lady Be Good (with brother Fred). She was the toast of Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance...
Love Under Canvas. Kokoschka, for his part, recalls Adele as a girl who danced like a dream-gay, relaxed, with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent...
...Kokoschka still thinks that art is in the artist's eye, and terms his school of painting (where he teaches students from 22 nations) the "school of vision." He scorns modern painters as "decorators for wallpaper, printed silk or men's ties" because "they do not use their eyes any more." He also unhesitatingly claims second sight. When he painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor...