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...latest publication, A Fly In The Pigment, is an outre novelette about art, Paris, philosophy, and modern society. The plot revolves around a housefly named Fanny who mysteriously escapes from his proper position in a Van Hoos still life (painted in the year 1675) and buzzes around observing modern life, until, absurdly, he dies. The press terms the disappearance "L'Affaire Ou est Fanny...
...Yeats' drawings and watercolors were on display at London's Waddington Galleries. Almost every one of them has been sold. Said Eric Newton in the Man chester Guardian: "His uniqueness lay in his extraordinary gift for turning an Irish brogue and a Celtic pilt into pigment...
...with the writer and painter, is effective and entertaining only so long as he speaks with the empassioned truth of his convictions--regardless of their complexion. Not even the HUAC would ask Pablo Picasso to explain his red period and name those artists with a propensity for a similar pigment...
...Delacroix. Ingres was now the champion of classicism, though it was his own brand. Delacroix and his followers were romantics who worshiped not Raphael but Rubens. While Ingres exalted line and form and insisted that the brush stroke should never be visible, the new painters reveled in color and pigment. "Yes. to be sure," grumped Ingres, "Rubens was a great painter, but he is that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses in the Louvre. When, years after Ingres was elected to the French Academy, Delacroix was also...
...attitude is clear. More alarmed than gratified by the proliferation of galleries and painters in the U.S., he once acidly, if jokingly, suggested that all painters stop work for a while and get other jobs-as domestic servants, for instance. On another occasion he reproduced a blob of pigment in the Times, then proceeded to subject it to the kind of analysis that an avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook...