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...Painter Tom Wesselmann, like de Kooning before him, has refused to choose sides in the controversy between abstract expressionism and the new realism. Instead, his female nudes, often in monumental proportions, inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann...
DIED, llya Bolotowsky, 74, Russian-born painter and sculptor, who was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group; of injuries suffered in an accidental fall in an elevator shaft; in Manhattan. Bolotowsky was an abstractionist who worked with flat primary colors in geometric compositions. In 1936 he created one of the first abstract murals ever commissioned...
...told, Roti's kin are paid $351,000 a year by the city. His daughter Rosemary Marasso is a mayoral press aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted...
...paper, now scheduled to appear again in February, has been postponed because an advertiser withdrew its business. Richard W. Painter '84, Perspective editor, said yesterday. He declined to identify the advertiser. "It's not only the loss of this advertising but a general lack of funds." Jess A. Velona '83, president of HDC, said yesterday...
...paper's staff, which is currently forming a business board, is planning to apply for grants from about 20 organizations and to solicit advertising from political organizations and businesses, Painter said...