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...their stubborn disregard of what sculpture "ought" to look like in the 1970s, De Kooning's bronzes stand in an interesting relationship to his paintings - as, indeed, the sculpture of major painters often does. Henri Matisse's casts, for instance, served as a receptacle for those instincts toward solid, feelable shape which he could not (with out violating the development of his work as a painter) get into his canvases. De Kooning imagery has long tended toward the monstrous. But the images existed in a fictional space, descended from Cubism, flattened and modulated. One may guess that...
Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin...
Braque was not primarily a painter of the human figure; when one appears in his work, as in The Model, 1939, she is treated as an object among other objects; the light and shadow fall on the face as they might on a Braque jug, bisecting it, reducing it to a formula with out - or perhaps beyond - personality...
...paint the branch well, and you hear the sound of the wind." The words of Chinese Painter Chin Nung were quoted by Kawabata in his Nobel Prize speech. Here, despite Translator Seidensticker's efforts, Kawabata's language does not come across as Japanese readers say it should-like strung-together haiku. Yet, even stripped of some of its verbal blossoms, the bare outline of the branch emerges. For readers willing to listen intently, there is the unmistakable rustle of the wind...
Rowland was himself a painter as well as a scholar. His water colors are in the permanent collections of the Fogg Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the City-Art Museum of Saint Louis...