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Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...
Naked Wife. For all his use of musical metaphors, Powell really works like a painter. His characters do not so much act within his frame as carry their histories in with them. Powell rearranges them, models and highlights them, then steps back to give a leisurely commentary on his composition. In Temporary Kings, as if to underline the affinity, he creates an imaginary Tiepolo based on the ancient Lydian legend about Candaules, the king who exhibited his wife naked to his friend Gyges, only to be killed and succeeded by Gyges...
...artist's sudden maturation is balm to see: 20 years of work, elusive recognition-then a burst of paintings of exceptional originality and depth. It does not often happen that way, but in the past year it has to a soft-spoken California painter named Joseph Raffael, 40. His series of five Water Paintings-large studies of light and reflection on fragments of river, without horizon or air or any of the normal appurtenances of landscape painting-goes on view this week at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in lower Manhattan...
Where, then, should a painter stop? Jan van Eyck took his scrutiny down to the limit of detail where the smallest legible form seems governed by a single hair of the brush: a painter's metaphor of the universal eye of God, marking the sparrow's fall. Perhaps that option is not open to a modern artist since the assumptions behind it no longer exist. In any case, Raffael (who, like any other young artist in New York in the '50s, was affected by Abstract Expressionism) wanted to keep handwriting-the visible gesture of the brush, done...
...actively involved in political issues are glad to see a Congressman walk up to them and ask their opinions on the nation's state of affairs. "I'm one of those people that don't go to town meetings or anything like that," says a 60-year-old house painter, "but when it's all over, I still like to sit back and quarterback. It's good to know that there's someone who's willing to listen...