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Approaching the painter of an avantgarde canvas titled Self-Portrait, Khrushchev asked, "Have you a mother?" "She's dead," stammered the artist. Replied Nikita: "She would die a second time if she saw your self-portrait." He spotted another objectionable work. "How much was paid for it?" inquired the Premier. Told the price was 3,000 rubles, he cried: "Deduct it from the salaries of those who approved the purchase...
Originally he had intended to be a painter, but color did not particularly interest him, and he found that however he painted a canvas, the canvas remained for him two-dimensional. "Painting wasn't tangible enough for me," he says. "I have to have something, like a child, that I can feel.'' When he first turned to sculpture, he worked in wood; it was not until he was past 50 that he found the materials that he now prefers-sheets of copper, bronze or silver, which he bends, hammers and brazes to enclose his forms. His skill...
...Painter John Paul Jones has a mind like a haunted house-and a house of marvels it is. In it, people of all shapes from heaven knows what time or place materialize in room after room. In his current one-man show at Los Angeles' Felix Landau Gallery (see color), he has heads and figures that seem to hover indecisively between existence and nonexistence. His sculptured heads achieve somewhat the same feeling by looking as if they had been buried for a while and had then decided to rejoin the world. Jones, who is an associate professor...
Sitting under a dark red painting of a huge human fetus in his living room in Ghent, Belgian Painter Octave Landuyt recalled a bit of his childhood. "I lived with my parents in a flat over a local slaughterhouse," he said. "I used to play among dying animals and heaps of entrails, while blood ran in the gutters. I saw bulls stagger under the deathblow, heave up again and again. It all had a primeval greatness...
...paintings that are on view this week at Manhattan's Albert Landry Galleries. Some of the paintings can make a queasy viewer turn green. But once the initial shock wears off, it becomes clear that the paintings have an impact beyond sensationalism: at 39, Landuyt is a painter of unusual power...