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...seen as the spiritual forefather of postcubist movements, ranging from the gesture paintings of the abstract expressionists to the gaily erotic whimsies of such pop artists as Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg. Miró is not only the most influential painter of the generation that came to maturity between two world wars; he is also the finest living painter after Picasso...
...skill lies in the dexterity of his hands, how much in the depths of his imagination? Those art-seminar questions are now the very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
...disputes Guino's astonishing claim. In Paris in 1913, the 23-year-old Guino was asked to help Renoir work at his new interest - sculpting. Crippled by rheumatism and a stroke, the ailing 72-year-old painter was barely able to hold a brush, let alone handle sculp tor's clay. So, under Renoir's strict and detailed supervision, the young Guino executed the artist's conceptions. The collaboration continued for four fruitful years, apparently to the satisfaction of both men. Renoir attached his name to the works; Guino settled for a small...
...ports, then came ashore in London. There he washed dishes, cooked under Escoffier, and met Fabian socialists; he moved on to Paris in 1917. "The French left," says Lacouture, turned "an angry patriot into a modern revolutionary." Setting himself up as a retoucher of photographs and a painter of "Chinese antiquities" manufactured in France, Ho changed his name from Nguyen Tat Thanh to Nguyen Ai Quoc-"Nguyen the patriot." A wraithlike figure "always armed with a book" (Zola, Shakespeare, Dickens, as well as Marx), he was nicknamed, unaccountably, "little M. Ferdinand...
...lack the revelatory authority of Weiss's earlier disorders and sorrows. Now in Sweden, he is no longer an innocent freshman questing, but rather a jaded graduate detouring. He revolves in typical refugee circles, begins to bed down casually, regards paternity indifferently, soon marries carelessly. Although still a painter, he has also started to dabble at writing -in Swedish-but he has yet to commit himself fully either to art or to his own life...