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...selecting his paintings, Janis hewed to his favorite thesis: the greatest artists of each generation are usually the least understood by their contemporaries. Mondrian and Leger, who Janis believes will stand the test of time better than Picasso, are represented by eight Mondrians, four Legers. Still, Picasso is there with a thorny 1928 Painter and Model, which the Modern's Al fred H. Barr Jr. ranks as one of the most valuable pictures in the collection. What kind of test other than difficulty does Janis apply to art? It must relate to the tempo of the time, says...
...much to expect that Montrealers could have respected his request for a quiet, unpublicized departure. More than 6,500 letters had arrived bidding him Godspeed, and now TV crews, newsmen and 750 well-wishers thronged Montreal's International Airport to say farewell to Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, 63, as he left his archdiocese for self-imposed missionary work in an African leper colony. "When I first made my decision, I felt all alone, but in a month it has become apparent that I have obeyed God's will," said the cardinal. "I leave with a resolution never...
Matisse, Picasso, Gris and Leger be came friends and frequent visitors. "The house was always full," remembers Claude. "The others found something warm and calm about...
...high piece of Voulkos sculpture, but the chosen piece hardly looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree. After all, by Peter Selz's definition, a work of art designed on request for a city hall can't possibly be funky, since the public has neither rejected the artist nor ignored...
Also: Jeanne Leger, merging the arts of painting and cinema through the device of the film loop; Jean K. Mason, psychotherapy and psychological testing of children; Claire Rosenfield, application of anthropological theories to literary analysis; and Anne Tabachnick, painting...