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Gifted artisans, who abound in the land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...
DIED. Bram Van Velde, 86, melancholic Dutch-born abstract expressionist painter; in Grimaud, France. Van Velde's life before World War II was almost a prototype of the lot of the unrecognized artist: hunger, despair and an unending search for patrons. After the war, he attracted supporters who saw in his work a sense of the absurd that reflected the existentialist experience. Commented Playwright Samuel Beckett: "He confronts without restriction and complacency the anguishes of our time...
...other major modern painter has less to tell us about the tensions of history and the facts of the 20th century than Giorgio Morandi; none, except Matisse, retired more completely from the "confrontational" role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...
...production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being presented. It had become a mausoleum." Controversy is nothing new for the flamboyant British-born director. In 1949 he produced a scandalous Salome-largely because of bizarre sets by Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali. He has set Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in what resembled an abandoned squash court, with the actors flying about on trapezes. Earlier this year, he staged Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with rugs as virtually the only props...
...fact, every writer and painter recalls the power of childhood, when the tumultuous variety of the real world is charged with miracles, when inanimate objects speak out, secret accomplices assume the forms of animals, and dreams are bigger than the night itself. But remembering and re-creating are different matters, and only a handful of artists can bring back the astonishments and textures of childhood. This season, the handful holds an unusually high proportion of works that manage the child's ability to render objects and emotions by drawing flat and seeing round...