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Molecules of Color. Francis moved on to Paris in 1950 and set to work atomizing the structure of light. In most of Francis' canvases the results, brushed in with broad strokes (he uses a 4-in. brush), look like a jostling torrent of molecules of color. The effect Francis wants is to make his paintings "a source of light. When I paint I try to create the feeling of being in it." In Francis' latest work, even black paint rates as light. Francis sees no contradiction, points out that his black is "intense, glossy and luminous. It creates...
...Juan Peron, from exile in tolerant Panama, running a campaign of sabotage and harassment against the revolutionary government that threw him out? Last week, after at least seven brush-fire in surrections in 24 days, many Argentines were beginning to think...
...true that no painter alive today-with the possible exception of Augustus John -could have carried off half so well what Sargent set out to do. He remains, as the Metropolitan Museum's onetime Director Francis Henry Taylor puts it, "one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the brush since the 18th century...
...principal sources were a pious Dominican eulogy and the memories of an ancient monk, Fra Eustachio. with whom Vasari often gossiped at Florence's convent of San Marco. From such accounts, Vasari drew the picture of Fra Angelico as a painter who "never took up his brush without first making a prayer. He never made a crucifix when the tears did not course down his cheeks . . ." Some later historians have doubted this picture of Fra Angelico in a state of religious ecstasy. The evidence in his painting points far more to a man who was the soul of patience...
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