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...reason or another, have not closely identified themselves with particular groups or movements. Some of the work is familiar to a U.S. audience: the sumptuous paranoia of Francis Bacon's images (TIME, April 7) basking like altarpieces behind their glittering shields of glass and gold leaf; the cool, infrangible poise of David Hockney's still lifes and portraits. Pierre Alechinsky, the Belgian painter, is represented by a group of delectably complex, exuberant paintings, swarming with organic life like microscope slides rendered in calligraphy. There is a group of Sobreteixims by the 82-year-old Joan Miro, hangings woven...
Kupka was one. Among the earliest paintings in this show is a dark still life, done around 1906, of a red cabbage plucked from the garden at Puteaux -leaf after exuberant leaf, dappled and veined, spiraling inward toward its round core. This system of forms crops up in painting after painting from Kupka's maturity, like the large and magisterial Around a Point, 1925 (see color page). It carried for him a weight of symbolic associations that had to do with growth, movement and cosmic energy...
...mean, about getting an erection? You see, this is the thing I'm trying to get away from--that fig leaf mentality. I'm trying to get people in touch with their bodies and sexuality. It's amazing now to think that thousands of years ago men were walking around with no clothes on, and thought nothing of it. Now men walk around with clothes on and think nothing of it. What a shock it must have been then, to see the first person wear clothes! And what a shock now, to see a person without clothes. Or with these...
...youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...enough that the sheet music of Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899, sold more than a million copies and made the son of a former slave well-to-do almost overnight. Not for Scott Joplin. As a youth he may have earned his living playing honky-tonk piano by night in a string of saloons and bordellos in the South and Midwest. But what few realized was that he was expertly tutored in harmony, counterpoint and the works of the classical masters...