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...mind leaps to Venice's canals, but the show's Guardi is a fantastical landscape of writhing trees and magical boats. Boucher? Rather than playful nymphs and naked amoureuses, there are a phantasmagoric cottage and tower that the brothers Grimm might have imagined. And Ruisdael, that painter of flickering Dutch light, is represented by a picture of a dark swamp-a savage place that could well be haunted by some woman wailing for her demon lover...
...belly; the other is a magnificent, hauntingly evocative biblical work painted when intimations of mortality obsessed the artist. There is a marvelous Chardin that Catherine herself commissioned to depict the "Attributes of the Arts." There is an exquisite early Gainsborough that looks ahead to his immense popularity as "face-painter" of the most beautiful women. The most spectacular picture is The Lute Player, painted by Caravaggio circa 1596 when he was only 23. No artist who saw its hard-lined reality, its dramatic lighting, its thrusting composition (the lute's throat almost reaches across the table to the viewer...
Stafford and Slayton crawled into the Soyuz and shook hands and exchanged bear hugs with Leonov and his fellow crewman, Valery Kubasov. Then they traded gifts, including flags and commemorative plaques; Leonov, a gifted amateur painter, gave the astronauts sketches he had done of them. After some small talk the four, plus Astronaut Vance Brand back in Apollo, sat back to listen to greetings from their national leaders. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, in a message relayed by mission controllers outside Moscow, hailed the meeting in space as marking a "new page in the history of research." President Ford, sitting...
Died. James Chapin, 88, American painter; of an apparent heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper...
Robert Hughes comments: "Kline was a figurative painter to the end of the 1940s. The point, however, is that Wolfe presented Kline 'in the '30s' as a party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...