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...Gunn's stars are self-sufficient. Where Donne tossed and scrambeld known quantities and academically-sanctioned categories, where Shakespeare talked of giving "local habitation" to "airy nothing," Mr. Gunn's landscapes, in his own words, lack "even potential meanings" and are modes of "convoking absences." His captains, like the painter in the first poem in the volume, expend their lives "resisting, by embracing, nothingness," until the night in which they are strangled by one of the "pudgy cheats" who are the objects of their passion, the models for their imagery...
...Amid speculation that Migratory Medici Huntington Hartford, 50. was in a nesting mood again, ex-Second Wife Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 31, weighed in with some advice for her rumored replacement, Philadelphia Model Diane Brown, 22. Counseled the onetime cigarette girl who turned painter-actress under the spreading A. & P.: "Don't become just another project of Hunt's. You can become a sort of child of his -a spoiled child. It seems strange now, that after twelve years of marriage to Hunt, I knew nothing about cleaning house, paying bills or doing the shopping." . - "I have gone...
Whatever inspiration they may have given him in life, women have been some thing of a cross to the fame of Jacques-Louis David, the painter-prophet of the French Revolution. Eleven years ago, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the unhappy fact that one of its most popular paintings - a portrait of a young woman, attributed to David and valued at some $100,000 - was not by David at all. The real artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review...
World War II Candidates. The Vatican's new list of causes contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz...
...paintings now." As a Christian and an artist, he is aware of the danger that he might confuse the "religious subjects" to which he is drawn for the direct experience and personal vision that can be the only legitimate subject for a work of art. But as an abstract painter, he is appalled at the emptiness and formality of most modern art. "It is the purest materialism," he argues. "My painting seems more important than ever. It has much better perspective than other modern art. Without faith, abstract expressionism is becoming art's arch clich...