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Died. Hans Richter, 87, painter, film maker and one of the originators of the Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published...
...very notion of "creativity" seems, in Velasquez's presence, a sentimental impertinence. He was unquestionably the deepest painter of matter who ever lived...
Lardy Cherubs. But the exhibition includes whole roomfuls of provinciality, grading down to junk. No 17th century European painter could possibly have produced a sillier work than José Antolinez's trio of lardy, simpering cherubs posing as The Christian Soul Torn Between Vice and Virtue. No matter...
Spain was a small, provincial place in 1650. Its economy was chaotic, its empire was fraying, the royal treasury was near bankruptcy and state policies were mostly devised by knaves or fossils. Art patronage was erratic, and to learn any thing about the "mainstream," a young painter of talent like Ribera or Murillo had to spend long stretches abroad...
Cyclopean Breast. Even when a Spanish painter lived away from Spain, he could keep a peculiarly Iberian fla vor. Such was the case with Ribera, who spent most of his working life in Italy, becoming the most gifted of Caravaggio's followers and the best artist in 17th century Naples. His portrait of Magdalena Ventura, the bearded lady of the Abruzzi, exposing one cyclopean breast as her worn husband looks on, belongs to the same Spanish tradition of dispassionate curiosity about freaks as Velasquez's court dwarfs and idiots...