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...have turned my palace into a prison," cock-a-doodled Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali, 63. "I am not allowing myself any kind of distraction. Look at my television set: I have turned it upside down and put a distorting filter in front of it." Could he be working at something? Si, si, nothing less than a vast canvas 15 yards square, "a study of tuna fishing" that will be ready for exhibition in the fall. And when he is not painting, he continued, he keeps busy photographing God. "God invented man and man invented the metric system," Dali explained...
...arrived in Spain to shoot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and found that Leone had meticulously reproduced settings and costumes from copies of old U.S. newspapers and photo albums. "He has a fantastic sense of composition and color," says Wallach. "He uses textures like a great painter...
...Reality. To be sure, Salmon is esteemed by 20th century Brahmins for slightly different reasons from those which made him Boston's most fashionable marine painter of his day. Having plied his trade for 30 years as a relatively unknown maritime artist in Liverpool and Scotland, Salmon emigrated to Boston in 1828 at the age of 53. He found it the center of youthful America's bustling maritime commerce. Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children...
...honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone with an eye could see that he had the talent of an artist...
...reminded Edith Sitwell of "cer tain brave men at the very moment of their rescue after six months spent among the polar wastes and the blubber." To Hemingway, he had "the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist." The object of these calumnies was Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first...