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...papacy of Urban VIII, who gave Bernini carte blanche to transform the face of Rome, the Vatican had a use for the best art of its time: magnificence as propaganda. The results, strung through exhausting miles of galleries and culminating in Raphael's stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy Georges Rouault, not one significant modern artist has built his imagery round doctrinal religion...
...early class was devoted to a parable about the life of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in 1962 and is revered as a revolutionary hero. Another centered about the People's Daily attack on Italian Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whose documentary film on China has been under attack for its portrayal of some of the cruder aspects of Chinese life. There is so little interest in another class, devoted to the Communist party line on Chinese affairs, that only three or four students regularly attend it. When students presented a petition-signed not only by Westerners, but also...
...prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
Wyeth was trained by Howard Pyle and influenced by Michelangelo. His rich colors, massive compositions and skill at texture and light have made the brooding and heroic moments he painted almost as memorable as the celebrated stories he chose to illustrate. Wyeth fanciers who can't get enough of the great man's work by dusting off their old books or peering over their children's shoulders should try this fine volume, which lovingly reproduces hundreds of Wyeth's pictures, briefly recounts his life, and concludes with a 127-page bibliography of books, periodicals, dust jackets...
China Machado, the stylist, dollies in to arrange the folds of a scarf with the care of Michelangelo planning the folds on the Pietá. Sitting immobile for hours at a time has its problems: "My muscles begin to shake after a while. Sometimes the tears start to flow from pain, and we have to airbrush them out of the picture." Such discomfort, of course, cannot be allowed into the photographs...