Word: leger
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Counterattack. Church leaders were not pleased over the belligerent and partisan Maclean's article. In Ottawa, Apostolic Delegate Msgr. Ildebrando Antoniutti said Fraser was "badly informed," his article "evidently tendentious." Archbishop Paul-Emile Leger, who had been trying to pour oil over the controversial waters after the resignation of Msgr. Charbonneau, was rumored to be "unhappy...
Gorky was not much appreciated while he lived; critics accused him of imitating Matisse, Braque, Leger, Miro and Kandinsky in turn. But since his death in 1948, a host of younger men have rushed to imitate Gorky's "abstract art of free-flowing form and evocative symbol." To them, it looks great...
...Contraltos Blanche Thebom and Risë Stevens, "have already agreed to work with me . . ." He promised to "make every effort to find the best artists among Americans." But, said he, "where I cannot find them, I will bring in Europeans." Since Edward Johnson's casting assistant, Frank St. Leger, had turned in his resignation, Rudi Bing would do most of the casting himself...
...succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point. With the few elements Leger allowed himself-poster colors and shapes that looked as if they had been stamped out of sheet metal " -he made just what he had in mind: paintings such as Disks in the City that were loud, bold, intricate and fierce as fire engines...
...Leger has lost none of his fire. Cluttering his little Left Bank studio are sketches for a book to be called The Circus, costume and set designs for the new Darius Milhaud opera Bolivar, and studies for a memorial to the U.S. war dead which he hopes to decorate with huge, gay, half-abstract ceramics of planes, ships and smiling young men with their helmets...