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...Will Painter Andrew Wyeth play Gilbert Stuart to Richard Nixon's George Washington? Yes, said Wyeth, he had been asked to paint the President's formal portrait. No, said a White House spokesman, no decision had been made. Well, said Wyeth, "I'll stick to painting weeds in Brandywine Valley." Wait, said Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "Wyeth is the man President Nixon would like to do his portrait when the time comes." But the time will not come while Nixon is in office. "There is nothing I despise more than having to sit for a formal...
...living artist enjoys a more bizarre reputation than the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. Up to 1918, he turned out a body of work that set him firmly among the masters of European modernism. His "mysterious objects," moonstruck piazzas and tilting, empty colonnades fascinated the Surrealists and became one of the inspirations of their movement. René Magritte and Salvador Dali were both De Chirico's debtors; Yves Tanguy resolved to be a painter only after seeing an early De Chirico in a dealer's window in 1923. André Breton, the pope of Surrealism, hailed...
...other hand, very little of it has been shown outside Italy. So the chance existed that a gross injustice had been done to the mature work of a gifted painter; in 1918, after all, De Chirico was only 30, and he has kept working ever since, denying that he ever was a modern artist and grumpily insisting that the Surrealists totally misunderstood him and his work. To present the evidence, the New York Cultural Center has assembled a retrospective of some 180 paintings, drawings, lithographs and bronzes, nearly all from De Chirico's own collection, spanning six decades from...
...rumors of the maestro's decline are greatly exaggerated. But they are not. No 20th century artist - not even Dali - went down so fast. The homage at the Cultural Center is a lugubrious affair, but an interesting one nevertheless; for it records in great detail how one gifted painter went backward under pressure, like an irritated crab, into a historical impasse - and has stuck there ever since, snapping his crusty pincers at every stir in the water...
Craft Council officials were unavailable for comment yesterday, but a painter employed by the University who wished not to be identified said that the painters' union rejected the University's contract offer and authorized a strike vote at a meeting Monday night...