Word: misshapen
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...will be some time before Valenti succeeds in dousing Hollywood with a good helping of "soul juice"-if he succeeds at all-but he is such an excessively eager fellow that his mere presence has given Hollywood a lift. Says he: "I came to this job not misshapen by old ideas and old prejudices. I don't know what's 'impossible' to do, and so I go ahead and try to do it. Will it work? I don't know, but I'm damn sure going to give it a whirl...
Died. Victor Brauner, 62, French surrealist painter, a Rumanian occultist's son who painted a portrait of himself with a damaged eye in 1932, lost an eye for real in a brawl six years later, thereafter turned out scores of intense, unnerving works filled with misshapen human figures characterized by outsized, haunting eyes; of cancer; in Paris...
...still are those who adhere to the permanence of cast metal. Michael Ayrton, 44, has painted for 29 years, but Moore got him to sculpt as well. Impassioned by Greek mythology, he wonders "what happens when you are partly animal and want to become wholly human." He makes his misshapen minotaurs, therefore, into symbols for man's stressful present. Bernard Meadows, 50, who assisted Moore from 1936 to 1939, also produces bronzes suggestive of figures withdrawn into abstraction. Tough, crablike carapaces cover highly polished softer forms like defenses for a vulnerable humanity...
...Ivan Albright, now 67. And last week there it all was, 60 works in Chicago's Art Institute, in a fantasia of wattles, dewlaps and varicose veins, the lifetime work of Chicago's painter laureate. It is an exhibition for strong stomachs. Limbs were blotched and misshapen, rolls of flesh sagged swollen and pocked. In the background of the paintings were tumbles of battered objects, microscopically detailed, and all in ripe decay. Presiding over this exhumation was the master himself, smooth jowled, red cheeked and full of protesting innocence. "What I am really trying...
...great thing that the resident actors at the Charles have done with Poet is to bring out the O'Neill form the difficulties of a misshapen form he had discarded. Because some passages jar, the organic structure of O'Neill tragedy--even when it is concealed by comedy--becomes more visible. Seeing Poet is like discovering that a girl is beautiful when what made you look again was an ink-smudge on her face...