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...fade away. Instead, they keep producing, often with a wit and wisdom that grow stronger as the years pass by, despite the fact that their styles may seem passe. Two cases-in point are Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, remnants of the surrealist tide that swept Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Ernst, at 76, is exhibiting his lat est sculptures at the lolas Gallery in Paris. Magritte, who died last August at 68, is being honored in his native Brussels with a retrospective that in cludes eight new sculptures designed before and executed after his death...
...moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose. In the 1920s, she was one of Sam Goldwyn's original Goldwyn Girls, earning $250,000 a year -but then came the talkies and the fading of her nova...
...Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...
...have sculptors begun creating works that are literally as clear and pure as air or water. Only in the past five have they successfully built them. For although plastic and glass designs were put together by Constructivist Naum Gabo and the Bauhaus' Laszlo Moholy-Nagy back in the 1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained for a myriad of advanced synthetics and plastics to make see-through sculpture a burgeoning art form in the 1960s (see color opposite...
Died. Billy Moll, 62, songwriter who in the 1920s composed Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, and I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream; in Stoughton...