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...city!" gasps yet another young Picasso from Pocatello as he stares in gaping amazement at Manhattan's skyline. "I've made it at last!" With his "life's savings" clutched in one hand and his life's work in the other, the young painter-hero of this 24-minute short subject plunges with the valor of ignorance into the talent warren known as Greenwich Village. He rents himself a studio in an alley littered with garbage and decorated with a sign that says: NO TOILET. Then out to the nearest gallery...
...begins a fresh, charming, witty piece of intellectual slapstick, a two-reel silent spoof of modern painting that is just as funny as Day of the Painter (TIME, Sept. 12) but much more subtle in comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...
...Paris, which jealously defends its own conviction that it is still the world's greatest art center, art critics rarely feel compelled to write high praise for an American. But American Action Painter Paul Jenkins, 37, has been winning applause for four years, and when his current show opened at the Galerie Karl Flinker, the critics found in it "surprising presence and purity,'' "deeply felt poetry," "moving forms...
...Frank Lloyd Wright blew into town on a commission to build a church, Jenkins met him and grandly announced that he was going to be an artist. "He asked me," Jenkins recalls, "if I had ever thought of agriculture." At 17, Jenkins tried to draw some sage advice from Painter Thomas Hart Benton. "Mr. Benton asked me how old I was, and then suggested I come back when...
...Secession. The son of Luxembourg immigrants who had settled in Milwaukee, Steichen started out to be a painter. But on his way to Paris in 1900, he stopped long enough in Manhattan to call on the already famous Alfred Stieglitz and to show him some photographs he had taken back home. Photographer Stieglitz looked them over, bought a batch for $5 apiece. "Well," he said as his 21-year-old visitor was leaving, "I suppose now that you are going to Paris you will forget all about photography." Steichen was already in the elevator when he blurted his reply...