Word: shahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Realist Ben Shahn, 57, the obvious fact was that today abstract artists and their public are poles apart. Said Shahn: "The great subject of Western Art has always been the crucifixion. At times painters have focused on the landscape behind, at times on the still life in the foreground, but the great subject must be there. Unfortunately, from time to time a generation of painters has to be sacrificed while artists re-explore the potentialities of their tools. This seems to be such a generation...
...finest duos in tempera and text to come off your press: Ben Shahn's subdued, intense cover portrait, and the continuing spirit of that portrait carried on by your André Malraux feature...
...haunting depth of character is portrayed with such sincerity and selectivity that on the merits of this work alone Shahn can be placed alongside Modigliani and Picasso as a portrayer of mankind. In reproducing its best cover to date, TIME has proved once again that a realistic likeness is recognized by the mind as well...
...plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn's splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff ... It was one of Artzybasheff's best...
...cover by Ben Shahn certainly is your finest. Thank you! May we see more of the same kind...