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...Congratulations on your Dubuffet article. It is good to see a painter working fresh connections of mind and eye. More strong digestions like his are needed to assimilate the art of the past and give the impetus necessary to handle new facets of today's vision. His work is not cruel but intelligently kind...
...Painter-Collector Ossorio owns 45 Dubuffets...
...painter's big job is to find what Koerner calls "an invention"-a pose, a gesture or expression that somehow reveals the essence of the person before him. "I invade privacy," says Koerner, "the most highly secret, sacred privacy." The green hair and the purple patches of flesh are in fact a legacy of the mpressionists -"the idea of green foliage, blue sky, warmth of flesh, all playing, interchanging with each other." For the dominant color of the painting as a whole, Koerner searches for clues in the subject's own character...
...school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
...boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...