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...provincial beginnings often confer a certain intensity on painters. The eye becomes obsessive, prehensile. Sanchez Cotán was a cloistered monk who never went outside Spain-but his Bodegon of vegetables (see color overleaf) is one of the most remarkable still-lifes ever painted. Each form-the ribbed curves of the cardoon stalks, the fleshy convolutions of the hanging cabbage, the ragged lace of the lettuce-is rendered with breathtaking economy. The picture is a lesson in ideal vegetarian geometry, with the slice of lemon and the slender cones of carrots occupying space like Renaissance mathematical models...
...Meredith Monk. Integrations of movement, sound and visual images, choreographed by the performer who promises to be the dance world's next critical success. At the Loeb, February 12-14, at 8. Tickets...
...ancient monastery of Deir el Makarios in the desert 50 miles southwest of Cairo, a Coptic monk is causing a mild sensation, drawing as many as 500 visitors a day. His name: Matta el Meskin, Matthew the Poor. Like the great anchorite St. Anthony, Matta el Meskin was once an affluent young man-a prosperous pharmacist. At the age of 29, heeding Jesus' call to "sell what you have," he disposed of his two houses, two cars, two pharmacies, gave the proceeds to the poor and, keeping only a cloak, devoted himself to prayer and asceticism...
...were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
...years ago, Dutch Author van de Wetering won wide praise for The Empty Mirror, a fascinating account of his experiences as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery (TIME, Feb. 11,1974). Now he mixes his Western upbringing and Eastern training to emerge as, of all things, a superlative mystery writer. This first novel starts in standard fashion: a man is found hanged, slowly turning on the rope, because "bodies suspended by the neck are never quite still." What follows is hardly conventional...