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Sculptor David Smith, whose pieces are among the best of welded sculpture; and Painter Adolph Gottlieb, whose canvases -usually some sort of calm circular form hovering near a frenetic, torn-looking shape-are getting to be a bit repetitious. Curiously, it was the two second-prize winners ($1,500) who simultaneously made their debut in the big time...
David Duncan's book is not to be read as art criticism; his obvious fondness for his friend blots out any fault the painter might have. But this fondness gives the book an extra dimension. Picasso's Picassos are not just paintings but extraordinary human documents. Duncan's admiring text may not illuminate Picasso's genius, but it does light up the man-simple, passionate, earthy, and, at the age of 80, head over heels in love again...
...that he feels divorced from reality. What is just as bad is the shameful fact that Dino is rich, or at least his mother is. And Dino hates money and the people who have it. Still, he accepts enough to enable him to set up as a painter in Rome's Via Margutta...
Amoral as a chimpanzee, as empty of brains as a gourd. Cecilia possesses at 17 the troubling sexuality that inevitably unhinges Moravia's men. She is the mistress of a 65-year-old painter who has a studio down the hall. When the old painter dies of a heart attack (induced, say the neighbors, by too much Cecilia), it is Dino's turn. What follows is the old sexual war that Moravia has refought too many times. In scenes so explicit as to make publishers of cheap paperbacks slaver for the reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths...
Callaghan's hero is Sam Raymond, a high-priced photographer who despises his craft and yearns to be, naturally, a painter. At 39, he has decided that his canvases are worthless and his life pointless. He flies to Rome to do a picture story on the dying Pope Pius for a Canadian weekly, and there, wandering about late at night, meets a drunken, beautiful girl. Sam asks directions of her, and she drifts on. But later, though he did but see her lurching by, Sam realizes that he is in love. He decides to find the girl and salvage...