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Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
Primitive, provincial and expressionist by choice, Hjorth distorts form to achieve more powerful effects, offends many a conservative Swede. His mural for Stockholm's Caroline Hospital showing a coarse peasant Christ surrounded by nude suppliants so shocked the hospital authorities it was consigned to the basement, and only later rescued by the city's Museum of Modern...
...began as an instinctive agreement on a set of negatives. The painters turned against regional painting ("The Iowa farms painted by Grant Wood seemed to us like dream fantasy images'"), against the rigid structure of cubism, the cliché-ridden images of surrealism-and against the Government-commissioned mural painting of WPA. Above all they were revolting against the awesome dominance of Paris painting and the long shadow of Pablo Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same wood. Some are still searching...
Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxaphone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
Francis I, whose predecessor, Louis XII, is credited with bringing back Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks from Milan (he wanted to bring Leonardo's The Last Supper, but it was impracticable to remove the mural from the wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie), is responsible for starting the Italian collection. Four of his Da Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested...