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Such figures as the majestic green-feathered angel and the rigid Madonna on the lunette fresco from Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tale of Two Cities | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

ALFRED JENSEN-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (third floor). More checkerboards than a shelfful of Purina boxes. Among them: Men and Horses, a three-panel impression of the Parthenon frieze that might have been done by a nearsighted mosaicist, and a monster quad-ruptych called The Birth of the Triglyph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uptown, Midtown, Museums: Art: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last week he got a telegram. He thought the judges, including Architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Whitney Warren, had decided. Fran tically he jumped into a taxi, urged the driver to speed. They were arrested. At midnight Richard Granelli reached the Institute at last, heard the news that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Office Boy | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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