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...exact forms, its concentrated power. We are grateful for the comprehensive repertoire which modern industry for the first time puts within our reach, but we turn sick at the aggressive temptation, like the novice in the sweetshop. Even the otherwise commendable Do-it-yourself movement, represented by the Sunday painter and the Friday evening singer or player, contributes to the dissipation of the artistic tradition; high art was not made for these uses...
...museum found it in a private collection in 1945. The museum's Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament is one of five historical canvases done for the Earl of Grosvenor in 1782 by Benjamin West, the Pennsylvanian who became president of the Royal Academy of Arts and court historical painter to George...
...past ten years, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 53, has not only been the leading woman painter of the School of Paris, but also has surpassed many of the men. Some critics have called her a "lyric expressionist," others an "abstract landscapist"; perhaps she is both and more. "With present techniques, an architect can build whatever he wants to," she says. "Why shouldn't I be able to build what I like in a painting?" Painter Vieira da Silva builds intricate constructions that never say, but only hint at what they...
...artist. "They were like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...handsome woman with darting brown eyes, she lives quietly in a comfortable Paris house with her Hungarian-born husband, Painter Arpad Szenès. She may do as few as ten paintings a year, but she works almost compulsively from dawn to midnight. Asked why, she simply shrugs. "One must." She is extraordinarily shy. even in middle age; the story goes that when a delegation of women admirers called on her one day, she fled to a closet and hid there until they went away. Not true, says Vieira da Silva: "If there had been a closet, I would have...