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Best known among the other winners were Sam Francis, who lofts petals of color on huge expanses of canvas, and Ivan Albright, painter of meticulous magic-realist works. Kenzo Okada won with his serenely pale abstract, Posterity, which blends European and Oriental idioms. Least appealing of the prizewinners were Ennio Morlotti's garishly colored, gouged abstract called Cactus and Paolo Vallorz' standing nude, a throwback to the Art Students League life class...
Trained as a painter, Kurosawa got interested in the movies because they seemed to him unnecessarily stupid. Rashomon was his tenth picture, and since Rashomon he has produced a relentless succession of masterpieces. Seven Samurai (1954), considered by many the best action movie ever made, is a military idyl with a social moral: the meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going...
...that end, she appointed two committees: one, headed by Antiques Expert Henry F. du Pont, to assemble period furniture, and the other, headed by New York Painter and Lecturer James W. Fosburgh, to seek out paintings and sculptures...
...least to some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard...
...urban open spaces in the U.S.?Chicago's Lake Michigan. "I can't remember when I didn't want to be an architect," says Pereira. As a boy, he was seldom without a sketchbook in his hand; at twelve, he had a part-time job as a sign painter. He worked his way through the University of Illinois painting scenery, illustrating menus and lecture notes for a duplicating company, picking up odd art jobs. He majored in architecture, minored in physics, bore down heavily on history, and rationed his time between so many projects (he was captain...