Word: painters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into the vital and shocking life of a country I love very much, the United States." Among East-West Painter Horiuchi's most enthusiastic fans: West-East Painters Tobey and Callahan...
This beat-generation soap opera is strung together with a brassy and banal score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
...comprehensive study of Griinewald (Abrams; $15), Critic Pevsner reproduces all that has been definitely identified as the painter's work, a mere 38 sketches and the whole or parts of ten altarpieces, including the Washington National Gallery's Crucifixion (TIME, July 18, 1955). Quite properly, 62 of the book's 143 plates are devoted to Griine-wald's twelve-paneled Isenheim altarpiece (now in Colmar's Unterlinden Museum), a work so famous it was mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles...
...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...