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Surprisingly, for a painter whose work looks so natural, Leonid lists cubism and surrealism, along with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spacemaker | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...tradition. Although Grable fans are less likely to enjoy this subtle kind of continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances on the tabletop with the hussar in the skintight pants. She rides through a snowstorm. She sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Fierce German resistance, which has now slowed down the Red tide to a few miles daily, even on a tabletop terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Gambit at Sevsk | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...patch on the seat of his trousers. She argues politely with the Clock (Colin Kenny). She investigates goings-on among the members of her father's chess set, who are squealing on the hearthstone because the White Queen's (Louise Fazenda) pawn has climbed dangerously to a tabletop. Alice straightens out this difficulty and sets off to examine the other rooms of the looking-glass house. A curious wind whisks her down the stairs, through the front door, down the garden path. There she picks up the White Rabbit (Skeets Gallagher) on- his way to the" party. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Wonderland | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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