Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"In thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous.
Satirist Lewis has an artist's eye, has long liked to think of himself as more of an artist than a writer. Last week, to Lewis' unconcealed satisfaction, London's Redfern Gallery was staging a full-dress retrospective show of his paintings.
Tin & Turnips. The critics were kind, found some subtleties to admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of...
He had painted Poet Eliot in 1938, had been chagrined to have the portrait rejected by the Royal Academy. This year, at 64, Lewis tried the same subject again, produced a picture that few would find either exciting or distasteful. When a TIME correspondent asked him to describe what he...
Painter Lewis' own face, added Eliot, "is worth watching. Wearing a look of slightly quizzical inscrutability . . . behind which one suspects his mental muscles may be contracting for some unexpected pounce, he makes one feel that it would be undesirable, though not actually dangerous, to fall asleep in one'...