Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Settled down in Paris, he works in a studio as neat as a laboratory. There are no still lifes and no models in sight, because he never paints directly from nature. "I discover my picture on the canvas the way a fortuneteller reads the future in tea leaves," he explains. "I never visualize a picture in my mind before starting to paint. On the contrary I believe that a picture is finished only after one has completely effaced the idea that was there at the start...
...Relaxing Part. At 33, Koerner is a neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...
Actors' Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart...
...where it's all leading, fed-up with the hypocrisy and inward rottenness of the moguls out there who cut out, like cookies, America's culture, morality, and dreams. So he tries to leave Hollywood but can't, because he once killed someone and might be exposed by the studio...
Fortunately, the cartoons and live action are kept separated, but there are moments when Disney appears to be matching his studio-made folk songs (the best are Stick-To-It-Ivity and It's Whatcha Do With Whatcha Got) against Burl's classic Billy Boy and Sourwood Mountain. Since a fair portion of Disney may someday become U.S. folklore, this idea is neither pretentious nor uninteresting...