Word: tamayo
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...Moreau by Tamayo looks like a rather sour Kore in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Or perhaps Mr. Tamayo was influenced by the Kouros in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Either way, let's leave the Greeks alone. Moreau, as your writer says, is all woman, every woman...
...reaction was shared by urbane Semi-Abstractionist Rufino Tamayo who did the cover portrait.* Instead of the flamboyant, movie-star type he had envisaged, the artist found his subject "a most unglamorous girl of marvelous simplicity. From the beginning," he recalled of the sittings in his Cuernavaca weekend home, "she said we should talk in English because her mother was English and she preferred the maternal tongue. It was her own delightful way of telling me what I already knew-that my French is preposterous." He was delighted that Jeanne agreed to informal sittings, without makeup or hairdo, "because...
Despite all this enchantment, Reporter Haber, Writer Farrell and Editor Cranston Jones hope they kept their journalistic judgment. As for the Tamayo portrait, it stirred mixed feelings in the subject. Said Jeanne: "I was struck by one thing when I saw the portrait [in progress], and that was the strength he found in me-not the strength I have, but the strength I would like to have...
MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
...recent years the dialogue of modern art has broken down most language barriers (see listings for the Danes and Japanese below}. Any notion that the Latin Americans have failed to get the message is dispelled by this roundup of 17 accomplished painters from eight countries, among them Rufino Tamayo of Mexico, Alejandro Obregón of Colombia, Matta of Chile. Alejandro Otero of Venezuela and Wifredo Lam of Cuba. Through March...