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...painting. To be sure, a lot of its manifestations have been head-shop trash-Peter Max mandalas and the like. But some have not, and these have mostly been ignored. A possibly key figure in this undertaking -the restoration of spirituality to painting, no less-is an almost unknown painter from Topeka, Kans., named Floyd Johnson, 39, whose recent work is on view simultaneously at Manhattan's Bykert and Rankow galleries...
Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo...
...Comes to Harlem (1969). In Charleston Blue, Director Mark Warren shows a boisterous if somewhat blatant sense of fun as well as a knack for dealing with mayhem. Charleston Blue is like slaphappy and violent vaudeville. Under the guise of cleaning up the ghetto, a flashy fashion photographer called Painter is rerouting all the Mafia's heroin traffic through his own hands. Johnson and the Digger are on to him pretty early in the game, but they cannot make a move because every citizen above 110th Street regards Painter as some kind of black Robin Hood. The movie comes...
Consequently, Motherwell, despite his genial behavior and his look of a rumpled, adipose bear prodded from hibernation, remains the stone guest at the festivities of American art, reminding the partygoers that modernism did not begin and will not end in New York. "Every intelligent painter," he wrote in 1951, "carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss...
...sense, in a French contex, La Tour was a magnificent vindication of provincial art. His style could hardly be further from the grand authoritarian rhetoric of Louis XIV. "No great painter ever refused more than Georges de La Tour," remarks Art Historian Jacques Thuillier. "There was never a great painter who created a narrower universe." He painted no landscapes. no buildings, no ruins, and hardly any animals beyond St. Peter's rooster and a fly perched on a blind beggar's hurdy-gurdy; the sole object of his scrutiny was man and woman and their intimate possessions...