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JULIO C. GAMAS MARIN...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
...time," he says, "that I was conscious that art makes an appeal to the emotions instead of the intellect." Emotions have been Root's guide ever since. In the days when Paris' moderns were the rage, Root went after such promising U.S. painters as George Luks, John Marin, Edward Hopper, and Charles Burchfield, who was still designing wallpaper in 1929 when Root first saw his work...
...seas and cockleshell boats, apple blossoms, circuses. As usual, he had worked with a light brush: a few lines for a fishing boat, a scattering of calligraphic squiggles to capture the rolling anger of The Written Sea. And no matter how fluid the motion, each picture had the "balance" Marin strives for. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he says. "I like my pictures to have that kind of balance...
Manhattanites flocked to the show, eager to pay their respects and up to $6,000 for a sample of the old man's magic. John Marin himself bobbed up for an hour to see how his pictures looked on the gallery wall, then hustled back to his paintboxes. At 82, he still tramps the countryside on good days, looking, studying, sketching. People sometimes ask him how he keeps his eye so clear and .fresh. "I can't tell," he says. "It's mostly instinct...