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Hateful Eyebrows. The son of Count Zappi-Manzoni, Pablo arrived self-taught from Arden's Rome salon two years ago with a bagful of tricks (beige foundation, pink and white eyeshadow). He took the fashion world by storm with a series of eye fantasies for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in which he used peacock feathers, sequins, lace, flower petals, even diamonds, all painstakingly pasted onto eyelids in fanciful designs. Some eyes took as long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden...
...what is a wry commentary on the flagging pace of Paris painting, the most sensational artist at the moment is Jean Dubuffet, who frankly prefers a drawing by a lunatic to one by Leonardo, patterns his painting on the world of children, wall scratchers, psychopaths, the self-taught and simpletons. Already past 40 when he had his first one-man show 21 years ago, he has since turned out close to 2,000 oils plus countless gouaches, drawings, collages and assemblages that incorporate every material from butterfly wings to actual dirt...
This is Baltimore-born Louis Glanzman's first cover for TIME. A self-taught artist and World War II veteran (Air Force) who now lives on Long Island, he is equally known as a magazine illustrator (LIFE, Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic) and a portraitist. His likeness of Lincoln hangs in Washington's Ford Theater, where the President was fatally shot...
Pomodoro, 39, started out making modern jewelry. Slowly his self-taught attempts at sculpture drew recognition, until prizes at the 1963 Sāo Paulo and 1964 Venice biennials won his works places in London's Tate and New York's Museum of Modern Art. For Pomodoro, the starting point is always solid geometry; the tension begins as he scars and gouges out his spheres, cylinders, cubes and disks. "The contrast between the polished and torn surfaces is precisely the difficulty of the individual to adapt to a new world," he feels. What he finds within evokes...
...learned education," old Cornelius Vanderbilt once said, "I would not have had time to learn anything else." That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored the man of action. It was an America that believed in the self-taught pragmatist, the graduate of life, the tinkerer who achieved progress through hunch and persistence. The intellectual was, at worst, distrusted as arrogant and impractical; at best, he was respected as a cultural adornment and considered all right-in his place...