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Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former...
When asked what he studied at Middlebury College in Vermont, Painter Alan Gussow answers: "American literature and the Vermont landscape." Now 30, Gussow still majors in landscapes and seascapes, and he achieves a rare blend of strength and delicacy. At times he seems to be rough with his subject. He dissects the land, shreds the sky, churns up the sea; yet instead of seeming shattered, his images take on new life. Gussow's first Manhattan show, at the Peridot Gallery, is one of the freshest of the season...
Recurring images of his nightmarish past blend into the impressions of his daily life. The camera does this well. Because the remnants of old fears and frustrations are expressed as visual symbols, it becomes difficult to distinguish the young man's dreams from his present reality. Across from his rooming house is a playground of his nightmare, the same voices of children, the same little girls jumping rope. Even the daughter of the woman he loves bears a striking resemblance to his former victim. This is so convincing that the man although both are rationally aware that all the audience...
Isaac Stern belongs to a breed of violin virtuosos who blend the elegant techniques of past masters with a warm understanding that elevates virtuosity into art. But Stern's violin (a Guarnerius) still belongs to the breed that Paganini played-and remains a remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha...
...intensity by a cast of six, Brecht on Brecht is an arresting example of offbeat off-Broadway. Close to stage rear, a portrait of Brecht peers out at the audience, eyes wily and skeptical, lips sealed in a self-mocking smile, peasant fingers clenched around a cigar-a complex blend of irony and passion. Brecht aimed his irony at the rich, the powerful, the complacent-and himself. He spent his passion on human suffering. Though he ended his days as an East German showpiece, Brecht's economic philosophy was little more than an emotional assent to Proudhon...