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...Shahn's working approach was primitive, his visual sense was not. By trade he was a painter and graphic artist of considerable reputation; in person he was a close friend and one-time roommate of the late Walker Evans...
...Line" combines a National Geographic tape of the warrior drums of Burundi with Mitchell playing Moog synthesizer and guitar. She sings a poem with images such as "Thru I-bars and girders, thru wires and pipes/Thru the mathematic circuits of the modern nights" and allusions to the French primitivist painter Henri Rousseau as well as The African Queen. But "The Jungle Line" drones after the first few lines, and unfortunately, musical innovation extends to the abandonment of bridges...
...later work does not measure up to this painting. More and more, in the later series, Kupka seems to be losing any sense of his own identity as a painter. His post-World-War-I work gradually discards the "spiritual" for a progressive mechanization of imagery and color. The magic and the music of the earlier paintings disappears; the movement here is not that of the cosmos, but that of a machine. These canvases are products of design, not creation...
...does interiors of rooms on large canvases, stacking them up against a side wall when she finishes them, works as a waitress at Ferdinand's and lives up in Porter Square. Her studio isn't expensive, though, and she very much wants to be a full-time painter one day. She likes the Concord Building, too, because it is old and has a nice atmosphere. It's kind of gray, actually, and Warner has to admit that gray dominates her paintings. "It's the mood I like to paint in," she says. "I like to play colors against a neutral...
...Leder continues to dabble in this and that, still searching, for five hours each day. He likes to look out past his easel at the Square down below, but he doesn't paint it. He worries sometimes about being a painter and a priest at the same time--they're really quite similar, you see, but sometimes people don't seem to understand that. Actually Leder's goals as a priest and as a painter are practically identical, and in his own mind, at least, he has it all worked out quite well. "I strive," he says, "for communication with...