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Paolo Buttini is a 19-year-old Italian with a sure hand and a consuming desire to be a great artist. His first big exhibit in Milan three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...
...Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming ceramics...
...master himself seemed supremely unconcerned. "Plagiarism?" he snorted. "Just my own original method of using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). The American Leonardo, with Gene Raymond, Wanda Hendrix, John Forsythe...
...science-minded 20th century, Sigmund Freud applied psychoanalytical guesswork to the problem. He decided that the Mona Lisa was actually an idealization of Leonardo's own mother...