Word: painters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painted with normal eyes, a figure can wander off the canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention...
Legal scholars were incredulous at the ruling (TIME, Feb. 25, 1966). But even an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was turned down. Angry and stymied, Painter wrote a book about his plight (Mark, I Love You). There was little else he could do. Then, two months ago, Mark's grandparents agreed to allow the boy a visit with his father, who is now living near Santa Cruz, Calif. Once Mark arrived, Painter filed suit in California to keep him. Mark had told him, "I've made up my mind, Hal. I want to stay in California...
...that the painting was later picked up by a descendant of the Burr family simply because of the likelihood that it portrayed Theodosia. Wilmarth's late wife, who was a Burr-family member, inherited it. The artist very likely was John Vanderlyn (1776-1852), a New York painter who was supported by Aaron Burr...
...painter of the Worcester portrait was long thought to be Francois Clouet and his subject Diane de Poitiers, the beautiful mistress of France's Henry II. But after the painting was seen in 1904 at an exhibition of French art, critics reluctantly concluded that the style was not Clouet and that the lady did not look like Diane. Most recently, a Paris scholar claimed that the lady resembled Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Director Rich calls that opinion "moonshine" and "absurd." His thesis: "All three paintings go back to a lost original, perhaps by Clouet...
...frugging, neon-lit, chromium-plated, plastic, pastel peregrinations of the times demanded a breathless roller-coaster rush of words to re-create the "shockkkkkk" of the real-life experience. But too often, Wolfe, dressed for the role in orange or off-white suits, merely seemed like an action-painter-writer recklessly ravaging the retinas with pastel word-blobs. Was he freaking out at the reader's expense? Was he in fact a social critic using a comic-strip writer's approach or a flack for pop cultists? A high priest of the gadgetry gods or the Walter Pater...