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Chicago's sawed-off, white-fringed Ivan Le Lorraine Albright is noted for painting old bottles, dead fish, seaweed, rot and decay with a relentlessly realistic brush. When human beings squirm into his paintings, he makes them look as if they had just been removed from a freshly opened grave. Now, at 60, Albright has painted a commissioned portrait (his first) of a woman-alive...
With awe I read of Piet Mondrian's supreme effort-when he painted a canvas composed of a white background with two black lines. One can only regret that he did not live long enough to attain the ultimate-the virgin canvas untouched by brush...
...best Kelly-on-canvas is from the brush of Sidney Nolan, 40, whose current show at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery is getting rave reviews and earning him recognition as Australia's leading painter. Nolan first heard of Ned Kelly from his grandfather, a fourth-generation Australian and retired policeman. Years later, when Nolan began painting the wild landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, the legends became the central images of his work...
...forestall surprise attack, inspection of border areas from the air, of airports and missile bases by ground teams. ¶To reduce the likelihood of brush-fire wars spreading into world conflagrations, some reductions in total manpower and armaments by the major powers (e.g., U.S. and Russia to 1,700,000 men apiece), plus inspections and bans on the import and export of arms, and checks on troop movements. European nations have worried lest the U.S., by nuclear disarmament alone, might leave them defenseless against Russian superiority in "classical" arms...
Seated in his wheelchair, his brush bound to his hand between two fingers, the painter worked intently on his canvas, his grey-green eyes squinting at the luxuriant landscape. "Merde," he murmured, "but it's beautiful!" He was Auguste Renoir, already in his late 70s and crippled by rheumatism, but lively in his opinions (shown a Picasso painting, he shouted: "Take that filth away!") and unabashedly glorying in his work. Showing a nude he had just completed, he confessed that his model was the baker's wife, exclaimed: "She had a bottom-oh, forgive...