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...that follow the contours of Leonardo's original work. Most intriguing of all is a detail on the existing mural: in the area presumed to be covering the Leonardo, Vasari had painted a soldier carrying a banner on which are written the only words in the enormous work: CERCA TROVA, which roughly translates as "Seek and ye shall find...
...corporation should project a socially and culturally responsible personality. It should be a tastemaker and thought provoker. It should contribute to civilization." The result was Container's famous 20-year advertising campaign featuring "Great Ideas of Western Man," with illustrations by such notable artists as Ben Shahn, Ernest Trova and James Gill...
This part of the Pulitzer collection, acquired since 1958, does include contemporary artists, but the choice excels more in the older 20th century masters than in the young of the 60's. For example, Ernest Trova's images of falling men--symbolic protruding bellies on smooth, molded gold forms--are pleasing rhythmically but do little to encourage the viewer's further exploration. In contrast to Trova's rather redundant imagery, are such masterpieces as Picasso's Cubist Portrait of Wilhem Uhde, Miro's playful, surrealistic compositions, Giacommetti's unique delineation of space in portraits, and the Russian, Naum Gabo...
...December exhibition is "Campbell Soup Cans" by Andy Warhol. A set of 10 original silkscreens. The gallery deals in original, contemporary graphics of such artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenberg Johns, Kelly, Krushenick, Stella, Gottlieb, Rauschenberg, Vasarely, Trova and Youngerman among others...
Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...