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...easel at Sotheby's in London, one day in 1938, was a filthy, yellowed, unframed Italian madonna. John Paul Getty gazed at it. "It looks like a Raphael," the richest man in the world recalls muttering to himself. "I liked it." He bid and got it for a paltry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raphael Revealed | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Weather Vane | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...achieve the musical and personal rapport that such expressiveness requires, the players cultivate an emotional generosity toward one another that reminds them all of a good marriage. First Violinist Robert Mann, 43, and Violist Raphael Hillyer, 49, charter members of the quartet, are a perfect match for musicmaking-Mann the easy, natural leader, Hillyer the intense, nervous brooder. Second Violinist Isidore Cohen, 40, who joined in 1958, seldom speaks except when spoken to-a towering virtue in a second violinist -and Cellist Claus Adam, 45, is also an ideal man for his instrument-a calm, stable, reassuring anchorman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quartets: Conversation of Strings | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Also at 10 a.m. one has the chance to hear, perhaps for the last time at Harvard, Professor Emeritus Raphael Demos in Philosophy S-1a. As much in appearance as in approach, Demos is a modern Socrates, midwife to innumerable fertile students over the years...

Author: By Steven V. Roserts, | Title: '...the essential condition' | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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