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...beautiful batsman?he lacked the grace of Victor Trumper, Ted Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator in Bradman's heyday sensed that he was using not a bat so much as an axe dripping with the bowler's blood and agony...
There is something so otherworldly about these frames. They evoke the hyper-realist, pop illustration style of Maxfield Parrish and the uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
...DIED. BALTHUS, 92, reclusive French-born artist, considered one of the finest realist painters of the 20th century; in Rossiniere, Switzerland. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola to a Polish family living in Paris, Balthus was best known for his provocative portrayals of adolescent girls. He was one of the few artists to exhibit his work at the Louvre while still alive...
...Breakfast After Noon," by Andi Watson, may feel strange to you, given its simple concept. After all, a six-part mini-series about relationships seems out of place in comix, much less one set in a neo-realist milieu of modern working-class England. Published by Oni Press, the final issue has just been released. "Breakfast After Noon," has a memorably sensitive, low-key meaningfulness for something so "radical...
...should be scandal enough. But a host of other questions arise. There is, for instance, the question of the "other Maleviches." The bank's collection was formed in secrecy and has never been fully exhibited. But art historians who helped build it say it included two other Malevich paintings, realist portraits dating from the artist's last years, and a drawing called The Reapers. They say the bank also acquired an object resembling an Architecton, Malevich's name for his skyscraper-like sculptures. If authentic, the Architecton would be significant-none has ever been offered on the market. Culture Ministry...