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...thing the show makes amply clear: Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the age of reason, when the philosopher Rene Descartes, whom Hals painted, proclaimed "I think, therefore I am." Man as pictured by Hals bulks almost impertinently from the canvas, but often there is a glint of self-knowledge in his eyes...
Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...mark of courage for anyone to consent to a Bacon portrait. In fact, the painter rarely has his subject present, prefers to work from photographs strewn about his London studio. Says he: "Sitters inhibit me; if I like them, I don't want to practice before them the injury that I do to them in my work. In private, I can record the fact of them more clearly...
Bloody Beef. Man is a grisly fact to Bacon's eye. With surrealistic swiftness, he slaughters the human form; yet the smithereens seem to scream for recognition. Despite the mayhem he commits with his brushes and his stylistic isolation, he is today considered Britain's greatest living painter. In a recent poll by France's Connaissance des Arts, he ranked fifth among the world's ten favorite living artists. His works are selling for prices...
Excitement & Horror. Bacon does not accept commissions, and his subjects are quite naturally his closest friends. Frequently he paints Isobel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne (see opposite page); or the painter Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund. He does not try to provide insights into their specific characters. Says he, "I am really trying to create formal traps which will suddenly close at the right moment recording this fact of man as accurately...