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...floor. Literally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way to the future--or would if anyone noticed. So Pollock sat up late with his sister-in-law. To comfort him, she read his palm. He was going to be a very famous painter, she promised...
...Pollock? He was America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo
Damasio complemented his speech with a slide presentation of emotion’s neurological processes. He concluded the slide presentation with a painting by Rembrandt, a painter of Spinoza’s time...
...color-field abstraction of a half-century later. Picasso replied with Harlequin, a self-portrait as clown, painted in a moment of marital despair, in which he adopts Matisse's flat stretches of color. Partly in homage to Matisse, the clown also holds out a painter's palette, this one bearing the ghostly silhouette of a man's face...
...battle the flab, food technologists in Natick sliced in half the fat and cholesterol in most recipes, says program head Elizabeth Painter. Oil in banana cake was replaced with applesauce; butter in brownies, with pureed prunes. Some recipes had to be abandoned, like perch filets breaded with crushed potato chips, doused in melted cheddar cheese and Thousand Island dressing. "That," says Painter, "is just gross." Now catfish is rolled around spinach and glazed with red-pepper sauce. The menu also features healthier grab-and-go meals like lime-chicken wraps to better compete with off-base Taco Bell and McDonald...