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...late Jan Müller had little sympathy with conventional notions of beauty; his visions were tormented, and he purposely painted them as bluntly as he knew how. As could be seen last week at a retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Müller was a painter of extraordinary power and skill: even at his most grotesque he fascinates where a lesser talent would only repel...
...years of his life, German-born Jan Müller knew few moments of tranquillity. When he was ten, the Nazis arrested his father for campaigning against Hitler, and though friends managed to secure his release through bribery, the elder Müller realized that he and his family had to flee. The Müllers went to Prague, only to find the city overburdened with refugees already. For Jan Müller, life became one long search for a home-in Switzerland, in Amsterdam, in Paris. When World War II broke out, the French interned...
...dishwasher, a factory worker, a day-camp instructor; but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to the school run by Hans Hofmann, the most influential teacher of U.S. abstract expressionism. But Müller could not follow so doctrinaire a master for long...
...sugar-coating on Vercors' pill. For pill it is, Vercors is not so much a novelist as a moralist, and Sylva is not so much a novel as a fable-an edifying tale designed to explore the question that has been bothering 59-year-old Jean Brüller ever since he took the pen name Vercors and wrote the book that made his reputation: The Silence...
...Center's ance on West 34th Street last ay evening might have thought another such radical gathering taking place. Hundreds of pla- waving young men, women, teenagers milled around the s, while a squad of New York's strian finest diligently tried to order. Across the street a ller group marched sullenly up down with a different set of : the inevitable counter-de-stration...