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Boston Bourbon & Saliva Sir: The piece on Painter Mark Rothko in TIME was terrific! "Yet if there is a painter alive who appears to be painting nothing, it is Rothko !" You said it, man-nothing ! You'd better check your art department-I've a hunch someone may be putting bourbon in the water cooler...
...late '30s he began to be seen with Dora Maar, a beautiful woman who kept appearing on his canvases with a cub-istically dislocated face. Even more unflattering was his muttonheaded portrait of Painter Francoise Gilot. Though Picasso and Francoise had two children, she finally left him in a huff. "I am not living with a man," she complained, "but with a monument." Picasso was all of 71 when the blow fell, but he soon found consolation with young Jacqueline. If the Paris-Presse portrait is any indication, this marriage may turn out to be the happiest...
...dead, runs full tilt upon love and hate, good and evil, in the living. Encountered in his investigations are a humanely skeptical Jewish doctor, a peasant woman who was Nerone's adoring mistress, their illegitimate teen-aged son, and a nymphomaniac contessa who clashes with a bitter homosexual painter over the boy. Watching past and present collide, seeing martyrdom cheek by jowl with betrayal and murder with suicide, the monsignor-before his own death-becomes a more troubled man of God and aware shepherd of men, as absorbed in the plight of sinners as in the credentials of saints...
Hans Hofmann is 80, and his claim to a place in the top ranks of American painters is secure. Yet Hofmann's renown is not grounded in a lonely, inarticulate struggle of artist and canvas. He, more than anyone else, has managed to combine the roles of teacher, example and influence in leading U.S. art to its flowering of abstract expressionism in the past 15 years. This long effort has scarcely seemed to age Painter Hofmann. He looks like a jolly burgomaster who has just turned 50, and as his latest show in Manhattan's Kootz Gallery proves...
...thing as motionlessness, for everything that exists must react to something else. A color automatically dilutes or enhances a neighboring color. Objects gouge out forms in space, and as one form recedes, another comes forward. The constant process of "push answering pull and pull answering push" is what Painter Hofmann tries to capture...