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Painters have ransacked the heavens and earth for inspiration, recorded the sea in all its moods, discovered the bird's-eye view centuries before the airplane. Only recently has the artist begun trying to conquer a new world-the vast reaches under the sea. Last month Canadian-born Marcel Cardinal. 38, now busily skindiving for fresh impressions off the French Riviera, exhibited his underwater seascapes in London's Matthiesen Gallery. This week Russell Swanson, 29, a U.S. skindiver, is displaying his water-soaked paintings in Philadelphia's William C. Blood gallery. For both, the underwater world...
...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...Baker's Wife can be summed up in four words: a Marcel Pagnol production. It has the usual kindly, middle-aged fat man and the usual beautiful young thing who strays from the straight and narrow; after alarums and excursions, the fat man forgives the young thing, and all is well again. Romantic love and romantic pride sustain another defeat at the hands of the gentler virtues...
...MARCEL VAN DIEREN Brussels, Belgium...
...their frustrating and interminable war in Algeria, where cruelty answers cruelty, and heroism has its ugly necessities, the French have found one continuing source of solace: the dramatic exploits of a tough, leathery colonel named Marcel Bigeard. The son of a railway mechanic, Bigeard was a humdrum bank clerk in Toul when he was called up just before World War II. Today, a weatherbeaten and wiry 41, he is a legend...