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Richard Diebenkorn, 59, is by fairly general consent the dean of California painters. A former Marine who began his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, Diebenkorn started as a representational artist in the 1940s, became an abstract painter, returned to the theme of figure-in-landscape in the 1950s and then, from 1967 onward, gradually began to make himself a world reputation with a sequence of essentially abstract canvases that he christened the "Ocean Park" series, after the section of Santa Monica where he now lives. Yet there was nothing veering or arbitrary about the changes in his approach...
...relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits radical Painter Diego Rivera against Nelson Rockefeller in discussion of the artist's huge and bustling Radio City mural that contained a head of Lenin...
...shot frames a refuse bin piled over with garbage, before widening to the dingy vision late afternoon sunlight casts on a New York City street. The closing credits play in front of a strip of posh boutiques caught by a camera moving along with the nighttime taxicab. Like a painter shadowing still-life with the dim light of a candle, Malle offers these tableaux to mark the disjunction between this reality of day and night, sights and sounds, and the restaurant where Wally goes to find Andre...
...windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, the most famous picture by Jacob van Rhuisdael, appears in his first retrospective exhibition which opened at the Fogg Art Museuem yesterday. Ruisdael is widely recognized as the greatest Dutch landscape painter, and over one hundred masterworks by the seventeenth-century painter are on loan from museums and private collections throughout the world. Seymore Slive, director of the Fogg, spent four years preparing the exhibition and has published a book on Ruisdael to accompany...
...Venice; Sebastian becomes a doomed and hopeless alcoholic. "Poor Mummy," he says, when he later learns of her death. "She was a true femme fatale. She killed with a touch." Sebastian's beautiful sister Julia (Quick) meantime marries a crass politician, and Charles, who has become a painter, enters into an unhappy marriage of his own. Ten years later, the two of them meet again on an ocean liner, and Charles loves the sister as he did the brother-on-camera this time. Summing up 12½ hours, Bloom jokingly remarks, "Boy meets boy. Boy loses boy. Boy finds...