Word: artzybasheff
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...Hooray for Artzybasheff! Ho Chi Minh's beard, too, seems to be crawling with snakes [July...
...said of few artists that they are beyond imitation or that their work can be instantly identified. Yet this was true of Boris Artzybasheff, our old friend and colleague who died last week at the age of 66 (see MILESTONES). Looking at a computer eating file cards, a long-legged robot stalking through a lunar landscape, or a hydraulic press squatting like an ancient, malevolent god, one immediately recognized the unique vision of the 20th century that belonged to Artzybasheff...
...book of drawings As I See (1954), Artzybasheff brilliantly animated various neuroses and suggested wryly that the man of the future would be born with a built-in storage cabinet for platitudes, the woman of tomorrow without a nose ("deleted because it usually shines and often gets in the way"). Always he returned to TIME covers, keeping a measured pace with the era, from sardine-boxed commuters to the heartbreaking Berlin Wall, from mechanical cows to Architect-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller-whose head, under the special Artzybasheff treatment, became a geodesic dome...
Their styles are many, ranging from the perceptive realism of Boris Chaliapin, Bernard Safran and Robert Vickrey through the intricate design of Boris Artzybasheff and the impressionistic dash of Henry Koerner to the pop of Andy Warhol...
...Artzybasheff's computer [April 2] looks, and probably is, a contemporary Siva, the many-handed god of procreation, conservation, and ultimately destruction...