Word: mathieu
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...ante rooms and garage of his cubist suburban Brussels home. This week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...
...opened a show of 15 modern Polish painters that clearly showed that modern Poland has at least two artists-Jan Lebenstein, 31, whose inch-deep art brut figures are powerful and evocative; and Tadeusz Kantor, 46 (TIME, April 6, 1959), whose impassioned swirls and splashes resemble France's Mathieu and the late Jackson Pollock-as good as any modern currently troweling paint on canvas, plus another baker's dozen far more varied and versatile than most...
...century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that all he wanted was a print of the port of New York has-and highly prizes-a fiery black and red abstraction by Jack Youngerman...
...rarely signed their first names to anything. But scholars have gone far in separating the three. Antoine, according to contemporary accounts, "excelled in miniatures and portraits in small." The peasant paintings of Louis, the most talented of the three, were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur de la Jumelle. But this sort of pomposity does not invade his Card Players. The game is tense, the players wary; an everyday scene becomes a study in suspense...
...only a skull for company, in peaceful contemplation. It has all the power of Caravaggio's drawing, which influenced Rubens. It is a striking example of Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist Mathieu. It lifts realism to an exalted plane by making the figure a light in darkness, as Rembrandt was later to do. And finally, it offers deep insight into St. Jerome, whose devout, blunt, passionate nature appealed strongly to Caravaggio...