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Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She reached her peak in the early '50s, when she was known for her geometric patterns painted on sheets of fluted and rippled glass, which were then placed one on top of the other so that refracted light jabbed through in a dazzling spectrum...
Died. Jean Varda, 77, California artist noted for his collages: of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Starting as a portrait painter in Paris, Varda had already switched to collage when he came to the U.S. in 1939. Much of his work was based on the idea that each picture should be remembered for one major color and contain just enough of another to accent the dominant shade...
...feeling of control over his stable of women-who may be either black or white and number from two to 20 -the pimp makes them treat him deferentially, light his cigarettes and speak only when spoken to. Said James, a pimp who, like his favorite ho, is an excellent painter: "Notice how quiet she is. You know why she's quiet? 'Cause I'm talking, not because she has nothing to say. She's as smart as I am, or smarter; she got two degrees. But she's a quiet, humble, beautiful woman because...
...Barry Le Va's Cleaved Wall (24 meat cleavers, slashed into a 30-ft. expanse of board) to a lamentable anthology of sculptural cliches that looks as if Gucci had been playing with oak beams and steel joists, but is in fact the work of the respected painter Kenneth Noland...
Recurring Gabriel. As the theological intricacies of Christianity spread, the character and role of angels became more complex and diversified. But if theology particularized, art tended to generalize; a painter could deal with only a limited number of symbols and attributes. More important, his audience-a heterogeneous one, not made up of theologians -could not be expected to carry all the minute subdivisions of angelhood in its head. Consequently only a few kinds of angels were identifiable, and these were linked to basic Scriptural events. The only spirits who stood out, time and again, as individuals were three archangels: Michael...