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...When Painter Joan Miró, 68 - short, round-faced and seemingly as placid as a Buddha-withdrew from France to his studio home on Majorca five years ago, an uneasy lethargy settled over him. He imposed "a silence on myself. A fast." Instead of painting, he sat and thought. Then, two years ago, catastrophe." Systematically he tore up scores of paintings that he had done on cardboard, obliterated nearly a hundred done on canvas-an act roughly equivalent to burning up $3,000,000. "The paintings uttered soft cries when they saw I was destroying them," sighs...
...fighting back. Among the leaders of the Freedom Ride were two white men who have made careers of getting into trouble for causes: New York's James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
...drawing that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...
...unbuffeted by the latest fuss or fashion, Painter James Chapin lives quietly on his New Jersey farm doing exactly as he wants. "As usual," he will say when asked. "I am painting people." His people may be famous or obscure, and may end up anywhere from the wall of a museum to the cover of TIME, but his work sets him apart as one of the finest veteran portraitists going. One of his best portraits made news last week when Amherst College announced that it had bought for its permanent collection his 1929 painting of Poet Robert Frost...
...artist's right to change his mind never got a better demonstration than the one given by Painter William Zorach. "The modern movement," he said in 1922, when he was 35, "has freed art from the idea of reproducing nature, an idea which has been persistently followed since the Greeks and which has been suddenly found to have nothing to do with art. The essential contribution of modern art to esthetics is the broadening and developing of purely abstract forms and colors." That same year, Zorach gave up professional painting in favor of sculpture, and the work...