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Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...
...painting of the Loire Valley Château de Lassay that was sold by a Paris gallery last month had a price tag of $6,000. It carried the signature of Painter Bernard Buffet. But neither the price nor Buffet's reputation intimidated the flics, who swooped down on the gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument...
Edibility. In the end, we consume the creation, take it into our own body. Its edibility not only brings us closer to the work by eliminating the awkward distances between, for instance, the painter and viewer or poet and reader, but the ability to internalize the object (the meal) places us in a position to be seriously, viscerally, even gastro-intestinally affected...
...other artist has been so honored. Beyond all precedent, Richard Nixon is giving Painter Andrew Wyeth a one-man show in the nation's grandest gallery-the White House. To celebrate the event, Nixon is holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House...
...Wyeth? The two men have long been mutual admirers. But Wyeth has been a favorite of Presidents from Eisenhower to Johnson, and John F. Kennedy picked him as the first painter to receive the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked...