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...hotly resent those anonymous "art critics" who dismissed British Artist John Merton's portrait of Lady Dalkeith [May 12] as mere "craftsmanship." I have noted an identical reaction to any realistic painting. Precisely what constitutes "art" to these learned judges of others' work? Would their favorite "primitive" cease to be artistic if it was, instead, a photographically true representation? I salute Merton's superb achievement, in having shown us beauty and elegance, and I say damn the critics...
Reflecting the academy's staid taste for realism, the painting that interrupted tea is a fool-the-eye portrait of a pretty girl. The artist who painted it is a onetime photo-reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret...
...pink, with matching nail polish, even has slivers of tin foil glittering among her painted diamonds. The academicians think that it illustrates their goal of acting "as a steadying influence on the haste or extravagancy of innovators"-i.e., the pattern-conscious "kitchen sink" school of art. Lord Attlee found Merton's painting "awfully jolly," but art critics disdained it as mere "craftsmanship." Flooded with commissions, Merton rejoined: "I only paint beautiful women, children and angels...
...Charles Merton Rohrabaugh, 63, executive vice president of Manhattan's Kudner advertising agency, was elected president to succeed J.H.S. Ellis, 64, who resigned in a move expected by the advertising world ever since Kudner lost the $24 million Buick account (TIME, Jan. 6). Minnesota-born Mert Rohrabaugh was principal of three Ohio high schools before entering advertising in 1925, joined Kudner...
...trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called and the Chosen, continuing her literary role as a kind of Thomas Merton-in-reverse, 59-year-old Author Baldwin leaps again...