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...appear in spasms and tics but rather in a long digestive process, modified by anxiety. And he was a ruminator: placid, sometimes, on the surface, but an artist of incalculably deep feeling. Along with Jackson Pollock, his polar opposite in every way, he was probably the most original American painter of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: UNDER THE CRACK OF REALITY | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

That wig, those glasses, that cadaverous pallor, it's . it's . DAVID BOWIE. The singer, whose own efforts at painting have not yet been accorded the critical attention Andy Warhol's drew, is playing the pop icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1995 | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Who will deliver the Commencement address, architect I.M. Pei, Painter Jacob Lawrence and former University Chicago President Hanna H. Gray...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Honorands To Receive Degrees | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...renowned educator and painter, Jacob Lawrenceis regarded as one of the foremost American Blackartists of the 20th century. Born in 1917 inAtlantic city, Lawrence studied at the Harlem ArtWorkshop in New York from 1932 to 1939. he taughtat the Pratt Institute. Art School from 1958 to1965...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Honorands To Receive Degrees | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...right-wing extremist. Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1995 | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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