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...documentary gallery of Brazilian plantation life. They also explain the steps by which Ayres is growing up as a painter, identify the bigger men to whom he is still in debt. His cubism comes from early shoulder-rubbing with modernism; having once tried to paint like Mexican Diego Rivera, he has not got over it yet. But much in the pictures is his own. Even more than imagination, the paintings show enormous sympathy for the simple laborers, sure understanding of their lives and myths. The themes of the best of them are primitive, the colors strong. Last week, critics looked...
Dean Cornwall, magazine illustrator turned muralist,* finished a Rockefeller Center shocker of a sort, though not to compare with Diego Rivera's, which once shocked the Rockefellers into scraping it off. Safe-&-sane Cornwell just shocked Vassar's art department, which stayed away from the dedication, explained by wire: "Vassar College cannot indulge in backing anyone so reactionary. . . ." They meant his old-timey...
Last week Senor Toscano's exhibit opened in Mexico City; 90% of it was from Rivera's collection. The show was front-page news in Mexico City, which was as unusual as an art show making Page One in New York City...
...wealthy painter willing to pay money for the oddities they plowed up in the fields or found in digging ditches. A steady stream of natives came to his door, bearing grotesque clay figures of humans and animals, whistles, pipes, beads. The stuff gradually overflowed the two houses Rivera owns...
...months ago, Salvador Toscano, who is an official of Mexico's Palacio de Bellas Artes, suggested that Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...