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TELEVISION Thursday, June 1 SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.)* Fredric March narrates "I, Leonardo da Vinci," which re-creates the life of the artist. Repeat...
...that I see in it." says Thomas Wilfred, now 78, "is that those who try it just don't have the vision to use it." As far as M.I.T.'s Gyorgy Kepes is concerned, the problem is largely one of newness: "Renaissance artists like Uccello and even Leonardo were as much interested in discovery as in the poetry of the discovery. There was a joy in the discovery and a joy in that...
Wilson is a Leonardo-haired philosophy dropout from San Francisco State with only two night-school courses in drawing; he is willing to admit that he has taken at least six trips, "before it was illegal, of course." His first foray into bizarre design was his own wedding invitation, worked out in a print shop of which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll...
...prince's collection by the late Bernard Berenson, in 1930. "After I became curator of the National Gallery," Walker recalls, "Berenson would say to me, 'I don't care what else you get as a curator, but before I die, I want you to get the Leonardo...
...London's Na tional Gallery between 1951 and 1953. "This picture," he explains, "has a mysterious way of growing on you the more often you see it. To me, Ginevra is utterly fascinating, more fascinating than the Mona Lisa, a miracle of psychological insight. Only once did Leonardo attempt to convey a mood of melancholy reserve, of disillusioned detachment. One feels, to quote Yeats, that Ginevra has 'cast a cold eye on life, on death.' " Concludes Walker: "Mona Lisa's smile is without gaiety; Ginevra's somberness is without dejection. In these two paintings Leonardo...