Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carvings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery this week, across the street from Josef Albers' two shows (see above). Like Albers, Arp chose never to "sully nature" with recognizable subject matter, but there the resemblance ended. While Albers' paintings looked like a number of things, Arp's sculptures looked like nothing at all-which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing...
...shaped pebbles on a beach. In On My Way, Arp had hit upon a deceptively simple justification for his own work and for abstract art in general. Art, said he, should be as natural as the fruits of the earth, "but whereas the fruit of a plant never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit, the artistic fruit of a man generally shows a ridiculous resemblance to the appearance of other things...
...accident, which Porter seldom mentions and never complains about, has made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help cast a second company of Kiss Me, Kate, which may turn out to be the biggest smash of his career...
...them to read their own language, using a Trukese Bible that early missionaries had translated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe-making, and he himself lectured constantly on sanitation. "We must use the toilets and not the school grounds," he would say. "We must never eat food off the ground . . . We must not store our dead fish in our foot lockers" (which the Trukese had gotten from the Navy...
...Wife: He doesn't seem to care. He never says anything...