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What's more surprising, finding a classically trained composer at M.I.T.'s Media Lab or discovering that his research there has produced a Fisher-Price toy? Either way, it is hard to question the pedigree of Symphony Painter, a new kind of electronic music software designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20; fisher-price.com Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving...
...formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate an existing painting," he says. "You just give them paint and guidance and let them do the rest." Although there's no definitive evidence that electronic music toys help kids become better musicians, Symphony Painter does make composing fun--and that may be music to some parents' ears. --By Wilson Rothman
DIED. AGNES MARTIN, 92, reclusive abstract painter whose spare yet soulful geometric grids strove to induce nothing grander than, in her words, "a little happiness [and] tranquillity"; in Taos, N.M. Martin's work was sometimes linked to Minimalism, but she insisted it was more a product of Expressionism and certainly "not cool." She won acclaim in the late 1950s for her clean lines, awash in grays or muted pastels, then stopped painting for seven years. Influenced by Buddhism and the colors and shapes of New Mexico, she eventually resumed creating work that can now be seen in collections from...
With respect to Painter Calcagno's remarks [Oct. 17] concerning the death of Paris as a painter's city: I think perhaps a young artist might confuse gallery-saturated Paris' failure to get excited vapors over his work with the arthritis of art he speaks of . . . But if he is looking for a rich and rewarding atmosphere in which to work and grow, it is still worth the boat trip. I wouldn...
DIED. ED PASCHKE, 65, provocative Chicago painter whose clashing neon colors and freakish-looking subjects invigorated Pop Art; of heart failure; in Chicago. Basing much of his work on photographs and TV images, he created layered portraits of strippers, professional wrestlers and other, less easily categorized specimens, and later painted simulated electronic images of Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. Jeff Koons, one of his students, likened Paschke's paintings to drugs, saying, "They affect you neurologically...