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...celebrate its Golden Anniversary, Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery plans to amass some new treasures this year. First purchase: the Tamayo opposite...
...buying art for a projected modern museum, said Siqueiros, why not let artists pay their income taxes with their work instead of their money? When the Finance Minister okayed the proposal, Rivera was the first to barter a $3,600 painting for his tax bill. But anti-Communist Rufino Tamayo, whose work is selling like hot cakes, said haughtily: "I prefer to pay my taxes in cash. I have no paintings to spare...
Artist Cuevas professes to be untutored and uninfluenced-except for his admiration of Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He dismisses the other Mexican masters, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, with a shrug: "They died several years ago, and what is left are the politics and the public relations...
When he was 24, Gonzalez moved to Chicago, went to night art school and worked as a daytime pants presser and railbed sweeper. He later went back to Mexico, where he taught art in public schools along with Covarrubias and Tamayo. His association with the Mexicans also had its influence on his work. Says Gonzalez: "We all came under the influence of Aztec art, Spanish baroque and Chinese and Japanese art . . . I am influenced by everybody...
Many of the works in the current show are done in Vinylite, which Tamayo likes because of its quick-drying qualities. And, says he: "If you don't like what you have just painted, you can wipe it out with acetone. In oils, if you decide to do something different, you paint over it, and later, ghosts appear through the overpainted...