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...huge flowered arm chair, draped a striped beach towel over her knees, and spread out a vast clutter of paint tubes, palette, brushes, a glass of water, a glass of rose wine (left from dinner), a cup of coffee, a jarful of L & M cigarettes, and pulled an immense easel, with a half-started painting*, to a spot between her and the TV screen. When something was said that caught her interest, she would peer around the painting for a minute, then go back to her art with furious concentration. Occasionally she would comment, without looking at the screen...
...capture the excitement, diversity and oddity of U.S. inventiveness for this week's cover story on new products (see BUSINESS, Prometheus Unbound). Cover Artist Boris Artzybasheff stretched his easel, produced TIME'S second gatefold cover (the first a Christmas creche on Dec. 28, 1959). Artzy scorned a new machine that paints for the artist, used an old-fashioned good right hand to personify these new products...
...local TV program. Kansas City's forthright Artist Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period...
...interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done before!" At the easel, he swirls, smears and stabs with tubes in mid-squeeze, a palette knife, his hands and, occasionally, a brush, grunting as he works. In a few hours, the picture is done: a wet, gaudy mass of color violently heaped and stirred. Sometimes it is a brutally simple likeness...
...gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome 92 ft. above the ground. Paintings were to be tilted backward, "as on the artist's easel"; lighting would come from skylights above the ramp and would be reflected downward by louvers. "The net result of such construction is greater repose," Wright declared, "an atmosphere of the unbroken wave-no meeting of the eye with angular or abrupt changes of form...