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YALE UNIVERSITY Josef Albers, abstract painter...
...When Painter Julio de Diego was a boy of 15 in Madrid, he already knew that he wanted to be an artist, but his father, a wholesale and retail merchant, objected. Father insisted that Julio and Julio's brother should aim for business success. "He even removed the table from my bedroom to discourage me from drawing," recalls De Diego. "One day I found some of my drawings, and he had written all over them, destroying every one: 'You are a Bohemian and this will be the cause of your dying of hunger.' " So Julio stuffed...
...never undertaken to a trade. But, at least in the days, it was supposed to give something that would enrich lives in the world, and add to their work. The idea was that whether a man turned out to be a or a house painter, he better for having gone to and for having sampled some . Certainly the idea was Harvard should be open only who wanted a stepping-stone to further academic pursuits. Harvard should be providing an education for life, however lived, and not an education for education...
Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Painter Thomas Hart Benton talks to Host John Ciardi about his Missouri boyhood...
...once dismissed as a refugee from the Grand Guignol is now widely considered to be Britain's most exciting painter. At 52, Bacon deserves his success, for he has resisted every trend and fashion in art to hack out a path all his own. Though shaped by such old masters as Rembrandt, Daumier and Velasquez ("He haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn...