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Last week an ex-conservative named Philip Guston gave an answer of sorts. Painter Guston's reputation is solidly based on complex still lifes and figure paintings. His tame, placid portrait of a plump-armed girl won top honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One Explanation | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

One of the sharpest blades in 1920 Paris was a young Polish-born painter named Moise Kisling. He wore his hair in a fringe, would duel at the drop of a beret, threw strenuous parties in his shabby studios. "He's the swellest guy in the world," wrote Kiki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Passionate Frenchman | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

His fellow Italians like his delicacy and deftness. This week two exhibitions of De Pisis' graceful still lifes, on-the-wing landscapes and gentle portraits were showing simultaneously in Milan and his home town of Ferrara. On view in Rome was his sensitive portrait of French Novelist Colette, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Humming Bird | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

These days, however, De Pisis is no longer the eccentric Venetian man-about-town. Thin and aged beyond his years, he lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Humming Bird | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Mark Tobey,* one of the Northwest's strangest and most famed painters, last week got the top recognition of his 60 years: San Francisco staged a big retrospective show in his honor. The pictures on exhibit dated back to 1917, when Tobey was painting reasonably realistic and somewhat prosaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seattle Tangler | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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