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Purity and Joy. For artistic success was not something that came easily to this provincial grain merchant's son. His first student efforts look as if they had been painted in a damp attic. He laboriously copied Louvre masterpieces, lasted only a few days as a student of Academician William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who told him, "You will never learn how to draw...
...Safe Distance. The company's founder and chairman, Paul Ricard, 56, is a flamboyant fellow who revels in the title "the Aperitif King of France." The son of a Marseille wine merchant, Ricard once had notions of being an artist; his practical father insisted, however, that he learn to earn a living first. Ricard turned from palette to pastis making, took over the family bathroom as his laboratory and distillery, added licorice to the standard pastis recipe to improve (or maybe to kill) the usual flavor. Perhaps an even better salesman than distiller, he drummed up a thriving trade...
...attention to symbolism begins in Copley's earliest paintings. His portrait of the Harvard astronomer Winthrop has a telescope on the backdrop, just as the portrait of Nicholas Boylston (of which there are three nearly identical copies) depicts the wealthy Boston merchant leaning on a ledger. The tradition is not new; through much of the eighteenth century many artists possessed handbooks, like Alciati's Ripe (1635), which encyclopedically portrayed all the traditional symbols and gestures in art associated with important didactic themes like virtue or temperance. In most of Copley's work the symbolic paraphernalia, like the background materials...
Died. Paul Manship, 80, front-ranking U.S. sculptor, widely acclaimed for his heroic-sized, neoclassic figures (notably, the 15-ft. Prometheus in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center), but also for finely wrought bronze medals (World War II's Merchant Marine Medal) and busts (Franklin D. Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels from all over the world-including Communist Poland and Cuba. "Everything is changing in Spain," says Industrialist Eduardo Barreiros. "The commotion is from top to bottom and bottom...