Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black man and mirrored him as beautiful. Not many, but some. Seeking them out, Author-Critic Alexander Eliot culled the great collections of Europe and the U.S. to assemble the remarkable gallery that TIME presents on the following pages. All of the pictures are white mirrors, since oil paint was never the Negro's traditional medium: the promise of black Rembrandts lay in other fields. But all of them reflect the unprejudiced eye that saw beauty could appear in any color...
...artist today, either black or white, could possibly paint or envision the tender, natural black and white spirits as Michelangelo did on the Sistine Ceiling-the twin inspirations of the prophetess Cumaea. But along with Michelangelo, today's artists might ponder the thought of Plotinus, the sooty, stooped and radiant philosopher who argued that dark and light together shape the world...
...very different from any ward I'd ever been on as a volunteer. There was a very long hallway with a row of ten doors lining one wall. Each door led to a small bedroom. The opposite long wall, coated with thick yellow or green hospital paint, was pretty bare except for the door that led onto the ward, an old Gauguin print, and halfway down the length of the ward, the TV. I glanced up and down the long narrow room and noticed a few middle-aged men, either skinny or fat in cheap untucked cotton shirts and chinos...
Upper level English courses contain many of these girls, as do courses in creative writing, foreign languages, and the other humanities. They rarely participate in extracurricular activities, with the exception of creative arts. When they do act, write, paint, or play instruments, it is usually extremely well. Probably they wrote poetry when they were young...
...learned that it would be torn down in a matter of days and hustled off to get a camera to photograph it. When he saw the prints, he decided that sketching was futile. "These things are so full of fantasy there is absolutely no sense in trying to paint them," he says. "I realized that no artist could have made them better." His wife Hilla, a trained studio photographer, acts as bag boy, lens handler, bookkeeper and darkroom technician. Together, they have dedicated themselves to recording what they call the "anonymous sculpture" of the Industrial Revolution. In the past...