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The Agony. He studied in London, New York and Paris (where he met his wife Julia ), eventually settled in Manhattan. By that time, the Depression had hit. The bleak agony of it made its way onto canvas after canvas: the bloody strikes, the mine disasters, that numbing, job losing moment...
In spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world's great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at "restoring" art masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture...
Renoir's Boating Party was lent to us by the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington people who knew the canvas 20 years ago didn't recognize it. It had been cleaned, and all the half-tone passages were gone."
...Modern displayed Monet's light-filled canvases in series devoted to a single theme-a haystack, a line of poplars, a cliff jutting into the sea, a cathedral. Guy de Maupassant described him at work: "No longer a painter, in truth, but a hunter. He proceeded, followed by children who carried his canvases, five or six canvases representing the same subject at different times of day and with different effects. He took them up and put them aside in turn, following the changes in the sky ... I have seen him thus seize a glittering shower of light...
One leader of the new movement is Allan Kaprow, 32, an assistant professor of art at Rutgers University. Kaprow's "painting in the shape of a theater" got started by way of giant paste-ups of indiscriminate materials. To bring back the idea of a picture, he hung canvas...