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...Radcliffe graduate students have obtained a Picasso and a Mondrian original for use in their exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Sponsoring the display are Sally Schaefer 2G, and Lilian Cramer 2G, students in the Fine Arts Department...
...Rotterdam, De Kooning left school at twelve, worked as sign painter and house painter while studying at Rotterdam's art academy at night: "I met a lot of fellows and we became a little like bohemians. We tried to paint like the impressionists. Some of us imitated Mondrian, too, but we didn't really get it very good." At 21, De Kooning came to the U.S., knowing only one word of English: "Yes." He got a job as a commercial artist, visited the art galleries in his lunch hours and painted by himself on Sundays : "I was influenced...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...
...pictures), take it all in good part. Others are made to feel stupid, cross, or both, when confronted with such enigmatic works as Malevich's White on White-a white-painted canvas adorned with one tilted white square. They are dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded by Joan Miro's Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird-in which the "Person" is a leg with an eye in its kneecap, the "Stone" is an egg trailing a dotted line...
Pictures like White on White have more historic than intrinsic interest (painted 30 years ago, Malevich's solemn joke helped clear the way for later abstractionists). A few highbrow enthusiasts maintain that other paintings like the Miro and the Mondrian are really great art, and that the public will some day realize it. Be that as it may, the museum keeps buying whatever suits its own rarefied fancy, and exhibiting its finds with an air of "Close your mouth and open your eyes and I will give you a big surprise!" Last week it had on exhibition two recent...