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...post embedded in a sofa pillow and covered with bits of photographs and newspapers, crowned with a stuffed rooster and wired to light up like a juke box every few seconds. But at 34, Rauschenberg already finds that "I now run the risk of being an extremely traditional painter compared to the young people." Just as Rauschenberg lets his "paintings" grow into environment, the newcomers seem to be trying to suck the environment...
Died. Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, 86, magazine illustrator turned portraitist and Southwest landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...
Ripon College Aaron Bohrod, painter, World War II combat artist, frequent (eleven times) TIME cover artist D.F.A...
Forthright and articulate about art, reticent about himself, Russian-born Painter Marc Chagall, 72, long a French resident, arrives in the U.S. to get an honorary doctor's degree next week at Brandeis University. Sounding somehow like a Somerset Maugham character, he told a Manhattan newswoman: "When one is young, one thinks of a goal in art. One talks. One reacts-as I did against cubism. But when one is older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after...
...lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic hack painter. The plot, insofar as there is one, advances at a glacial pace towards the question of what Flagg and Kinsolving had to do with the brutal sex-murder of an Italian peasant girl...