Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the dance of the rusty robot to Ray Bolger's tumbling scarecrow and Bert Lahr's campy lion, the children will greet most of it with a knowing and unexcited air. When Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow last year, a three-year-old female sophisticate said: "She always wears her hair in braids, you know." But Judy's Dorothy, as a matter of surprising fact, is not the uppermost character in the children's minds any more. To them, she is just another frosted cornflake...
...Chaissac is the town cobbler in Vix, France. He writes poetry, has been a friend of Dubuffet for 20 years. His art is marked by eccentricity and a sparkling imagination. With wash and wallpaper he wraps strange figures in startling ambiguity: one picture suggests both the Crucifixion and a scarecrow. In one room eight of his skinny wooden totems stand around and stare from odd, misshapen faces. Through June...
...most costly item in the collection is Andrew Wyeth's The Scarecrow, which Nordness got at the bargain price of $50,000. Wyeth, who paints only two pictures a year, currently commands twice that figure, and his 1962 output had already been spoken for. By a lucky break, the 1947 Scarecrow turned up at a dealer...
Says Nordness: "Wyeth is painting today just as he did then; so The Scarecrow is an honest representation of his present style. I let this criterion be my guide on all the pre-1959 paintings by other artists I bought." New Comprehensibility. What kind of impact will "Art: USA: Now" have in Europe? The best prediction can be made by comparing the new show to a big collection called "The New American Painting" which toured Europe in 1958 under the sponsorship of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. By then, the U.S. abstract-expressionist movement...
...Hitchcock says glowingly. "After all, they've been put in cages, shot at, and shoved into ovens for centuries. It's only natural they should fight back. Many people are terrified of them. Once the picture is released, it may do wonders for cat sales and the scarecrow market...