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DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...
...famous and obscure. Apart from Venice itself, this is the main reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief: here the wearisome traits of much contemporary art, its honking rhetoric, its unconvincing urgency, its arid "appropriations" of motifs, are left...
...Whistlerian mot: "Jimmy, I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will." In all his long career Whistler produced only one painting that enjoyed the same permanent celebrity as this riposte, and it, of course, is Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1872, one of the half-dozen most famous pictures of the 19th century. The reasons for its fame are obscure and debatable, but the results are plain to see: "Whistler's Mother" swamped the rest of his output, turning him (at least in the eyes...
...pseudonymous William Wharton, author of Birdy, Dad and A Midnight Clear, is himself an American painter who lived many years in Paris, so it is no surprise that his street scenes and descriptions of the painterly process are vividly authentic. His chapter on Scum's attempt to paint a self-portrait that would transport him out of the temporal dimension makes a stirring set piece. But his identification with his character is so complete that the novel seems to be spun from their shared fantasy fulfillment. Difficulties give way before Scum. Whatever he needs comes conveniently to hand, whether...
Because they are often the clearest index to a painter's intentions; finished or fragmentary, they are the deposit left by the process of image forming, the residue of the darlings and probings that constitute pictorial thought...