Word: painters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTORY OF A NATION OF ONE by Jecon Gregory. 228 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.95. The barefoot, world wanderings of a 61 ft. English hobo painter. Not as pungent and pandemic as such recollected tales need...
...time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would be a figure painter," he remembers. "But objects suddenly took on a personal nature. They became parts of the body. Potato chips are ears, ink bottles are nipples...
...have forgotten their Galsworthy, the first installment is hard to follow without a genealogy (see chart). It introduces 22 of the show's 120 characters with scarcely a pause for breath, then plunges into the troubled life of young Jolyon, played by Kenneth More, a black-sheep painter who scandalizes the family by setting up housekeeping with his daughter's governess, played by Lana Morris. Margaret Tyzack, as Jolyon's cousin Winifred, marries a ne'er dowell. And then there's Soames, Winifred's brother, who looks like a cross between Abraham Lincoln...
...real creator is Hungarian-born, Paris-based Painter Victor. Vasarely, the most articulate theoretician of the op movement and longtime believer that art should be not merely a luxury for the rich but available to everyone (or almost everyone). Since Vasarely's paintings fetch upward of $16,000, the obvious way to cut costs was to mass-produce the medium and let the purchaser do the work. Once he hit upon the idea of using movable plastic units, Vasarely applied the fundamental idiom of his paintings-geometry and color. All pieces are snugly interlocking circles and squares and come...
...John also happens to be a pretty fair painter. "By the time we get our room decorated there should be about 25 Ballantynes on the walls." John said. "My style is reminiscent of Picasso." he added sheepishly...