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...group (about 80 men over the past 38 years) who have painted a TIME cover. This is Joe Jones's first magazine cover, but his is a name well known among gallerygoers. St. Louis-born, Jones hit the art world in the '30s as an angry proletarian painter with an oft-quoted ambition: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls." But even then he was also painting Midwestern wheatland themes, and he soon changed his politics, his subject matter and his style of painting. Then came the Joe Jones of the more familiar style...
...Painter Strombotne says that the figures were indeed inspired by Duncan's photographs of Kathy and Cooper, but denies that the face is Picasso...
...clock every weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this...
SURROUNDING the elegant figure of the French painter who calls himself Balthus, there has always been an aura of mystery. He rarely exhibits his work, and he himself lives in virtual seclusion in a gloomy medieval chateau near Autun. He has shunned all of the schools that in successive waves have swept over Paris, but he can claim among his fervent admirers some of the most prestigious names in French art. One admirer is Pablo Picasso, who has a prized Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months...
...enchanted that he wrote a little text to accompany the drawings, and in time they were published in a little book. Artist friends of the family-Bonnard, Derain, Vuillard-encouraged the boy and even gave him lessons. By the time he was 28, Balthus was an established painter in his own right...