Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Secretary to the Soviet U.N. Delegation Leonid A. Morozov signed a lease for the summer on the lavish, 47-room, 18-bathroom Long Island home of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, which was once (1945-47) rented by Amtorg as a haven for relaxing Russian bigwigs...
...Black. In those days John was Ivan Jadan, and Russian critics compared him enthusiastically to Leonid Sobinov, who 40 years ago sang tenor to Chaliapin's bass. His more ardent admirers called him "the Russian Caruso." Ivan lived in Moscow's most modern apartment house with his wife Olga and his son Alexander, enjoyed the special privilege of shopping in the luxury stores reserved for the new Soviet aristocracy. There was only one wrong note: Jadan was not a party member...
Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think...
...surrealism, Leonid never paints outright fantasies, "but I like to discover the surreal things that exist in nature. I look for the paradox . . . like men reaping seaweed or growing mussels in regular vineyards under water...
Memory & Spirit. Short, slight and urbane, Leonid is the younger brother of a better-known artist, Eugene Berman (TIME, May 24). He long ago dropped the Berman from his signature to avoid being confused with his brother, whom he followed to the U.S. three years ago. Married to Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, he lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port...