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...fascinating idea, giving Harvard to non-academics on their own terms. But few of the visitors explore the breadth of the University. Most use Harvard just to brush up on their own particular fields of reporting. Science writers study science, business writers study economics...
...when paintings have grown large enough to require flatcars for easels, and brushstrokes have turned into mighty walls of color bright enough to divert low-flying aircraft, a Lilliputian touch is welcome. Such is the mark of Italy's Gianfranco Baruchello, 41, whose works seem painted with a brush one millimeter wide to produce meticulous yet mysterious images that float across glossy white panels like microbes creeping from an infested imagination...
...hard to see why the 19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed...
...that is still in use. During World War II he got a chance to try it out as commander of an artillery battalion in North Africa and Sicily. During ten months of front-line combat from Utah Beach to the Elbe, he had two bouts of malaria and a brush with a land mine that blew a truck out from under him but left him almost unscathed...
...pictures are really abstractions," says Christ-Janer, 55, "that, I hope, come through with a magic that makes people see nature in them." He can brush a cool, grainy vision that recalls arctic tundra seen from 25,000 ft. up, or the scorched, forever autumnal desert of the American Southwest. Says he: "The earth, the sky and the sea are my sources of information...