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...surrealism -- was bewildering. But they seemed portents of cultural renewal; so even with Japanese who were painfully aware that their country had a name in Europe for imitation, not invention, the need overran the obstacles. "Of course one has to imitate," remarked one old Paris hand, a Western-style painter named Mitsutani Kunishiro, in 1931. "Even if we want to create works that are uniquely Japanese, we still need to look at Western paintings in order to supplement our own deficiencies...
...walls and loosely-fixed posters he found on the back streets." Saeki today is a culture hero in Japan, a Van Gogh-like figure who killed himself in a fit of despair over his art at the age of 30 in 1928 -- a strange freak of reputation for a painter whose work seems not much more than sensitive pastiche of those two archbores of the Ecole de Paris, Maurice de Vlaminck and Maurice Utrillo...
With respect to Smith's comments about Ephraim Isaac's candidacy, she is also off base. The four slots immediately agreed upon included a noted Black historian, Nell Irvin Painter. The split on the nominating committee on the fifth slot had nothing to do with opposition to Isaac because he was black or because his field was black or because his field was "too esoteric" or "too flaky" but rather reflected concern about the electability among the general, non-activist, in many cases conservative, alumni/ae population of someone who had sued Harvard University. Had he been white, the concern would...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...