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Could there be something Freudian about a painter who invites his mother to sit for a portrait not once but more than 1,000 times? Definitely, since the man is Lucian Freud, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis. An exhibition of Lucian's works, including five oils of his mother Lucie, 82, will open in New York City's Davis & Long gallery on April 4. "My work is purely autobiographical. I work from people that interest me," explains Lucian, 55. The exhibit psyched up a London Sunday Times critic. "You can call it odd or art," he wrote...
...troubles by directing attention to the power behind the scenes: the prestigious and secretive Wall Street investment house of Allen & Co. Inc., which owns approximately 7% of Columbia's stock, or 500,000 shares, worth some $7.2 million, and dominates Columbia's board. The article, which was written by Lucian K. Truscott IV, an aspiring novelist and a freelance journalist, asserted that Allen & Co. was seeking to sell out. Begelman's reinstatement and the condoning of his crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock...
Long before the invention of the rocket, man dreamed of hoisting sail and traveling through space in wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena...
...ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal (almost) as Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow on the floor, is an elegy for George...
...itself in water, space density, surrounded by all the natural objects this human being on the state creates with the aid of silence and fiction. It is an art of illusion, but it does not permit any trickery. The gestures must be pure, true and comprehensible. The Greek dramatist Lucian wrote: "The mime who is guilty of a false gesture commits a solecism with the hand...