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...medieval interests, the museum's strength lies largely in those two fields. But with the new acquisitions, Cleveland now has at least one object that is near the top in every department. They range from a 5th century B.C. Greek lekythos to a 1962 painting by Richard Lindner, an exquisite gilt bronze Standing Buddha to a Berlinghieri Madonna and Child. An extremely rare set of early Christian marbles portraying Jonah and the Good Shepherd makes an illuminating contrast with a hypnotic 15th century panel, St. John the Baptist, by the Maître de Flémalle...
...enjoy making flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make a show...
...Painter Lindner grew up in the era of Brecht's social satire, of Max Beckmann's razor-sharp realism, of the street-fighting Weimar Republic, where a mark was worth less than a match...
...easy to be an artist, because nothing else paid anything either. Lindner started off as a concert pianist, but in 1922 he cheated his way into an art academy by submitting a friend's sketches, and began his life's work. As a Jew and a Social Democrat, Lindner knew in 1933 that the rise of Hitler was a reason to flee. He arrived in the U.S. in 1941, began working as a magazine illustrator, did not get back to creative painting until...
...Lindner assimilated the hubbub of urban New York, he combined his natural bent for satire with his impulse to depict city bustle: "You see women on the streets all wrapped up like candy packages," he says, and he is the artist of the concupiscent street scene, of crass crowds, of penny-ante popular life. "Macy's is the greatest museum in the world," he says. "You can study the people, the objects, the smells. Even the chandelier department is a sort of phony Versailles...