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...summer of 1948. the painter Arshile Gorky entered his studio barn in Sherman, Conn., tied a noose in a rope, chalked a farewell message on a picture crate-"Goodbye, My Loveds," it read in broken English-and hanged himself. He was 44 years old, and he had been afflicted by most of the disasters that can befall a man: cancer, the destruction of many of his works in a fire, nagging poverty and the collapse of his family. His life had been a mass of insecurities right from his childhood in Armenia, where he barely escaped a Turkish pogrom...
...Historian Martin Friedman points out in his catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation of detail forces us to reflect on process-how they were made, why they need to carry so much information. They are conceptual art, of a kind: Idea before Painting. What other realist painter comes near this minimalist harshness? Close's images pay absolute homage to the power of an overriding system; they might have been done on autopilot...
...emotional gestures," he maintains. "Human heads are things people care about. You can't mess around with them-but I'm interested in being flat-footed about it." And in this flat-footed way, Close has done more to redefine the limits of portraiture than any other painter of his generation...
...club also elected Christina A. Spaulding '84 vice-president. Spaulding defeated Richard W. Painter...
DIED. Alfred Jensen, 77, Guatemalan-born painter whose lushly colored, checkerboard-patterned paintings were inspired by abstruse mathematical theories and the architecture of ancient civilizations; of cancer; in Livingston...