Word: nolan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent covers provoked comment from an extraordinary number of readers with insights of their own. All three were strong and inherently controversial works -Rufino Tamayo's stoic study of Actress Jeanne Moreau (TIME, March 5); Ben Shahn's volatile gouache of Martin Luther King (March 19); Sidney Nolan's evanescent whirl of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev (April 16). Some readers found them unusually exciting; others objected vigorously, and a few thought them downright malicious...
...Sidney Nolan's portrait of Nureyev was a brilliant depiction of the dancer's proud, electric genius-his concentration. It is the most poetic cover I've yet seen on TIME...
...gross incompatibility and lack of harmony in your pas de deux (cover and coverage) starring the great Nureyev [April 16]! In your marvelous coverage, Rudi is a colorful, vibrant and electrifying creature. Sidney Nolan's Rudi, however, is about as exciting as a dish of cold oatmeal...
WHEN this week's cover started coming off the presses, the artist who painted it, Sidney Nolan, was in the mountainous wilds of the Sepik area of New Guinea watching native dances. "I wish Nureyev could have been here in the mountains with me," Nolan told TIME'S Australian correspondent by radiotelephone. "Somehow, 100 natives dancing with gorgeous bird of paradise feathers in their hair symbolized for me the very spirit of ballet...
This is TIME'S third cover story on the ballet* and Nolan's first cover for TIME. It was a commission that he welcomed with great enthusiasm. An Australian who now lives in London, Nolan is known for his brooding canvases, his translucent colors, and his figures of man, often puzzled but always dignified. A ballet buff for years, he designed the sets for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at London's Covent Garden. He is a convinced Nureyev fan, has been observing the dancer since 1962. In London he once watched from the balcony...