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Cruciform Mazes. The Moscow group is frankly nostalgic-and, since the past is most memorably represented in the Soviet Union by its cupolaed churches and moldering mosques, their imagery tends to be religious. This is particularly evident in the glittering panels of Dimitri Plavinsky, 30, a painter who has traveled extensively in Central Asia, where, he writes, "I came to know the magic voice of silence communicated by the crumbling walls of mosques, mazes of deserted cities and the intricate patterns of Asian mosaics...
Married. Constantine FitzGibbon, 48, prolific American-born novelist (When the Kissing Had to Stop) and biographer (The Life of Dylan Thomas); and Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 37, a sometime painter more widely remembered for forfeiting a cool $60,000 annual alimony from her first husband, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, to marry No. 2, British Actor Dudley Sutton; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Bantry, Ireland...
...Shahn, D.A., painter. Pathos, protest, wit and wisdom shape this lively artist's telling work...
Hand-Painted & Destroyed. Now new processes are beginning to be used for reproductions that fool not only the eye but the sense of touch as well, duplicating both the color and raised brush stroke of oil on canvas. Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, for one, was astonished when technicians in France showed him duplicates of his 1966 work, The Phantom Vessel: "I was absolutely incapable of detecting that they were not my original...
Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American painter, is noted for drawing and other graphic techniques. He is best known, however, for his prolific murals in U.S. public buildings. During 1957-58, he gave his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard on the education and responsibilities of artists (published as "The Shape of Content...