Word: temperaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Ivory drums, carved canoe prows and paddles, dance shields and other ob jects from the Massim region of New Guinea. Also 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
...Geneva, and in 1929 joined the Abstraction-Creation group in Paris. There he worked with Jean Arp in surrealist exploration of a limbo of landscape of imaginary objects utterly divorced from reality. Like Arp, he drew "biomorphs," or lifelike forms-egg shapes, darning sticks, blobs crisply drawn over tempera grounds. To shock the stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable, he was nonetheless learning to break down the four dimensions of cubism, and to free...
ARTHUR JOSEPHSON-Seiferheld, 158 East 64th. Fifty drawings in silverpoint, ink, tempera and wax encaustic by a facile, delicate draftsman. Included are some out-of-this-world portraits of Moondog, the blind musician clad in army blankets, who haunts Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas. Also 16th to 19th century old master drawings. Through...
...fabric of the world. Working from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in his studio on the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting. Over these loose, unframed scraps, he lays on slick sizing so that subsequent brushstrokes in oil tempera seem to float above the surface. He paints where the bristles of his soft, often home-made brushes lead him. He says he is "listening to the brush-I want my colors to breathe, not to cover...
Hirasawa has applied for a new trial, but his application has no legal staying force on the order of execution. To focus attention on his case, Hirasawa's supporters arranged for an exhibition of 50 of the 480 tempera paintings that he has turned out in his 15 years in the death house. Hirasawa's backers have also circulated copies of the original composite newspaper drawing of the robber in hopes of turning up new suspects...