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...fact that, as a dutiful Communist, he knuckled under in the 1920s, when the Communists decided Socialist realism would be the only acceptable art form. While Gabo and Pevsner fled to the West, Tatlin ended his days in Russia as an obscure drafts man and stage designer, experimenting with Leonardo-like flying machines. (The Soviet government apparently still thinks so little of him that it refused to lend any work to the Stockholm show.) But in retrospect, argues the Modern Museum's Pontus Hulten, "Tatlin is emerging ever more clearly as one of the few really great figures...
...atomic engineer. Yet I hesitate to reject it. Beethoven and Mozart never heard the sounds of today-the ringing of a telephone, the roar of a jet engine starting. If they had, perhaps they would have utilized them in their music. The same goes for plastic art. Leonardo da Vinci never saw New York City at night. Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have seen. Frankly, I would like to work with these composers who write crazy music, but they are terribly isolated. They should collaborate with performers; then, instead of looking to new instruments...
...Lichtenstein, 44, the Leonardo of the funnies, has attracted 20,000 people in his first ten days at London's august Tate Gallery, where he is the first living American to be given a full-dress retrospective. Critics rhapsodized over his Ben Day dots and thought balloons, his deadpan spoofs of modern art, his tear-stained blondes and stone-faced Steve Canyon heroes. Said the London Observer: "The calmest crystallizer of our generation, a kind of Ingres from Manhattan...
...Leonardo. All too often, Johnson has sought to substitute promises for challenge. "I'm not sure he knows how to level with the public any more," says a Southern editor, "except in the old Texas-New Deal sense. Tm gonna build y'all a dam. I'm gonna put laht bulbs in Aunt Minnie's kitchen.'" Agrees U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy: "I'm not criticizing Johnson for not having cleaned up the ghettos overnight or having gotten the war closed up in a year or two. I don't think Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Aquinas together could have...
...matched its pyramids and temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front of the Palazzo Vecchio by a committee that included Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli...