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...Metropolitan, the problematic French painter Balthus...
...largely unnoticed facts about current art is that despite the hoopla made over some national groups of painters-mainly German and Italian-a great deal of the most inventive and solid painting in the '80s keeps being done by the English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London...
Instead of accepting the glossy impact and impersonality of mass media at face value, Morley rants against them. That is the main difference between him and the Pop artists with whom he was associated in the 1960s. It was not obvious at once. When he first emerged as a painter, it was with images that looked utterly deadpan: paintings of ocean liners, enlarged from postcards and publicity brochures. But their method was peculiarly systematic, a parody of system, in fact. Squaring the postcard image up to canvas size, Morley would work on it patch by patch, sometimes upside down, stippling...
...ebullient, white-bearded master art forger; of a heart attack; in Colchester, England. A modest art restorer, Keating became the center of a scandal in 1976 when the London Times discovered that he had faked and sold at least 13 works, purportedly by Samuel Palmer (1805-81), the English painter. Keating admitted that he had churned out about 2,500 imitation masterpieces in 25 years-at prices as high as $35,000-including paintings in the style of Degas, Renoir, Turner and Constable. Keating's case went to trial in 1979, but charges were dropped after doctors said...
DIED. Jimmy Ernst, 63, noted painter of spiky, delicate abstractions and son of Surrealist Max Ernst; of a heart attack; in New York City. Born in Cologne, Germany, when his father was gaining fame as a founder of the Dada movement, Ernst grew up among artists and, at the outbreak of World War II, settled in the U.S. His technique linked color blocks with lines or grids but did not exclude specific subject matter. His final paintings, currently on view in New York City, ranged in inspiration from his mother's cell at Auschwitz, where she died...