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DIED. Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...
Entitled "Creative Transformations," the exhibition is a retrospective of Fernando Zobel '49, who founded the artists' colony of Cuenca and was a leading Spanish painter until his death...
...SOCIAL issues tiedto the emergence of capitalism replaced concernfor the legacy of serfdom, and the realistpainters turned their eye to these new problems.The image of the peasant dominated many canvassesof the period; as Lecturer in History andLiterature Cathy Frierson has pointed out, it wasthe objective of many realist painters to"penetrate and master the peasant soul." IvanKramskoi's portrait, "Mina Moiseev" is the firstwork to confront visitors to the exhibit, and itgives clear insight into the Itinerant painter'sdetermination to study the psychological behaviorof the peasant. Using a restricted palette,Kramskoi does not idealize his subject, and therealism captures...
Vasilii Vereshchagi, an independent painter,depicted scenes from his travels as well as imagesof battles and bloodshed that had haunted Russiaafter the disastrous and bloody Crimean War. Thespontenaity of his "Mortally Wounded" (1873) showsmodern war's horrors: sketched in broadbrushstrokes, the lone soldier lunges toward us,clutching his wound instead of his gun which liesforgotten on the ground behind...
...seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong. They both disliked vorticism, the remarkable English movement that combined elements of cubism, futurism and Dada and centered on the belligerent genius of Wyndham Lewis, painter, soldier, novelist, critic and editor of Blast. Bell in 1917 sneered at the "new spirit in the little backwater, called English vorticism, which already gives signs of being as insipid as any other puddle of provincialism," and thereafter the Bloomsberries rarely missed a chance to put Lewis down...