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With their splashes of strong color and rectilinear features, they look like the canvases of a painter. In fact, the pictures are a new form of art, of the high-tech kind. Photographed from 440 miles out in space, they are views of the earth by the U.S.'s newest and most versatile earth-observing satellite, a multieyed robot called Landsat 4. Launched last July, it has been faithfully circling the globe, swinging from pole to pole and back again once every 98.9 minutes, taking electronic shots of every spot on the planet, except a small region around...
DIED. Ben Benn (né Rosenberg), 98, Russian-born painter who assimilated modern artistic trends into a style of prodigal buoyancy; in Bethel, Conn. Benn, who came to the U.S. as a teenager, delighted in the urgency of the senses, of colors and surfaces, which he celebrated in long, loose, singing brush strokes...
...street, but the now vanishing archetype of aristocracy, calm and straight as a Purdey gun barrel, with the look of arrogant security guaranteed to paralyze all lesser breeds from Calais to Peshawar. This invention began in 1632, when Van Dyck, an ex-assistant of the greatest court painter of his age, Peter Paul Rubens, arrived in London. It ended with his death at the age of 42, in 1641. In between came seven years of service to the court of Charles I and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria, during which Van Dyck attained the kind of success that few artists...
...French were fond of cats and bunnies; and the Germans liked galloping pigs. As fascinating as banners portraying the Jolly Fat Lady, the Cardiff Giant and the proverbial Two-Headed Calf were the artists who created these icons of the bizarre. The exemplary Snap Wyatt, a cigar-smoking sign painter, became one of America's midway masters in his Florida studio. He once built a 9-ft.-tall animated elephant stepping on a convicted Hindu for a traveling "torture show." Behind these neon-bright screams for attention, one can almost hear the barker . and smell the caramel corn...
Dictators' pastimes are far more striking because they often contrast with the rulers' normal behavior. Nero, no fiddler incidentally, did play the lyre and sing to vast, appreciative audiences. Hitler was a painter who started out doing postcard-size works of art and, as his career improved, worked his way up to large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi...