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...swept westward until it had engulfed Spain, one of the first areas to be liberated (by Charlemagne in 788) was Catalonia. There, in their outpost of Christianity, the proud, fiercely independent Catalans built their churches on the foothills of the Pyrenees, decorated them with some of the oldest European tempera murals and paintings still in existence. Long considered provincial copies of Byzantine art, less rich than the Moorish splendors of the Moslem mosques to the south, and primitive by comparison to the French Romanesque and Gothic triumphs to the north, these works of art only in this century have come...
...Haitian Emperor Toussaint L'Ouverture, Negro migration, and Abolitionist John Brown. The success of his approach is attested to by the fact that six of the series have ended up intact in top U.S. museums or public collections. For his latest, 30 small 12-in.-by-16 in. tempera panels (of an eventual 60), Painter Lawrence, 39, has broadened his range, taken in not only the Negro, but the whole nation. His ambitious subject: the birth of the U.S. and its struggle for freedom...
...inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and although his formal schooling during his ailing childhood never went beyond first grade, he holds an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard. Comfortably completing the picture of success is the fact that a full-scale Wyeth tempera today brings $8,000 to $12,000, and his watercolors, sometimes dashed off in 20 minutes, bring...
...acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...
...more than three galleries given over to Shahn's art contain a wide variety of works. There are a number of book illustrations, drawings, Christmas cards--a selection of large graphic works including examples of his "commerical" art, as well as the more familiar paintings done in tempera, water color and gauche. Some of the artists best known works will be missed, such as Handball and Red Stairway, but these deficiencies are compensated for by the inclusion of many unusual and out of the way pieces...