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...inventive leap into the emotional context of the painting. The artist can also use visual illusions of space to encourage this inventive leap. A frame, for example, gives the picture an illusion of infinite space behind the picture frame, as if the frame were a window looking into the painter's imaginative world. In short, the viewer understands that the artist imaginatively recreates a setting which has nothing to do with the immediate surroundings of the gallery in which the painting hangs...
...makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...
...WHICH party does he belong to?" The whispered question came from Painter Marion Pike as she arrived for the first sitting with Ronald Reagan. It seemed odd that she should ask, in the midst of the heated California political campaign, but so far as the cover was concerned, the answer really did not matter. In selecting the cover subject in any given campaign situation, TIME'S editors consider party affiliation a more or less incidental matter. The decision depends largely on which candidate has introduced a new and interesting element into the political picture. In the 1966 California gubernatorial...
...first task was to reflect France's reigning Sun King. To keep up with his demands, 250 weavers were required, while additional shops turned out furniture, sculpture, mosaics, even locks and bolts. Presiding over all was Charles Le Brun, who gave the age its style. As first painter to the King, Le Brun decorated most of Louis' palaces, planned Versailles' garden statues and, above all, saw through to completion some of the most sumptuous tapestries ever created by Gobelins...
...sovereign succeeded sovereign, Gobelins faithfully followed painting as a kind of painstaking handmaiden. Not until 1937, when French Painter Jean Lurcat introduced abstractions, were the weavers released from traditional subject matter. The revitalized Gobelins factory also attracted the designs of the 20th century's most prominent artists, including Marc Chagall, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely and Miro. Inspired by the fresh results, contemporary architects awoke to the fact that tapestries provide a highly effective counterpoint for vast spaces and cold materials. Says Miro, enthusiastically planning to collaborate with architects on new tapestries: "As modern man becomes increasingly restless, moving from...