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...piece suggests Mantegna in mood, it is closer to a modern painter in manner. "The colors," says Poulenc, "are very clear, primary colors-rude and violent like the Provence chapel of Matisse." Scored for chorus, soprano, and a sort of celestial band of horns and strings, Poulenc's 25-minute Gloria proved to be a work of sharply profiled contrasts, at times deeply reverent (in the manner of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites), at times mischievous and almost jazzy. Among its memorable moments: the opening of the second section, "Laudamus Te," with the dissonant cry of French horns...
...learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi's career as a painter had begun...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
...Dutch figurative painter, Klein took to art after briefly trying his hand at training race horses in Ireland and then at professional judo wrestling in Japan. He found that working with brushes was too finicky, so he bought himself a paint roller that could cover even the biggest canvas in a trice. In time, when rollers proved a bore, he hit upon the idea of smeared models, whom he calls "living brushes." With this technique, Klein does not have to touch the painting at all: "I want to be the umpire between the canvas and the animal, vegetable and mineral...
...rain. They had. Klein produced The Wind of the Voyage by strapping a large I.K.B. canvas to the radiator of his car and driving through a storm. Says he: "It gives me a feeling that I am not wasting my time when I drive." "The true painter," declares Klein, "is the one who creates nothing visible." Indeed, he calls his art "a voyage through the void of the immaterial." At times Klein's work becomes so immaterial it does not even exist. In his last Paris show he offered for $600 something called A Zone of Immaterial Sensibility, hors...