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...fragments of glass are held together by a transparent glue. When the panel is finished, it gets a coat of liquid, transparent enamel, and is baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...
SUZANNE, 62, is married to a French artist, Jean Crotti, still paints expressionist oils and watercolors in her spare time. Her most striking contribution to the exhibit was a lighthearted portrait of a middle-class French wedding party which she painted...
...small group of strange paintings attracted critics to Manhattan's Balzac Galleries last week. They were the work of a bald, naturalized Frenchman named Jean Crotti. Painter Crotti is the most eminent exponent of a school of art known as surrealism...
...plodding German critics like to read into their works. They just painted. It is therefore the surrealists' premise that all that is necessary to produce art is to stand in front of a canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...
Actually M. Crotti is not an ineffective theorist on canvas. Born in Switzerland 51 years ago, he does not disdain a knowledge of drawing. One canvas, which looks like two Scots fighting with bolts of tartan but is labelled Fishermen, is an interesting arrangement of colors. Lorenzo, a rapidly sketched portrait of a small surly boy with a face like a baboon, stops and holds most observers...