Word: tempera
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...finest duos in tempera and text to come off your press: Ben Shahn's subdued, intense cover portrait, and the continuing spirit of that portrait carried on by your André Malraux feature...
Painter Zerbe set out to find a new medium. The answer was polymer tempera, a plastic mixture developed by one of Zerbe's former students at the Boston Museum's art school. Polymer tempera is made by mixing polyvinyl acetate, a bland white plastic (which is also used as a binder for paper diapers), with softener and ammonia. The result is a fast-drying medium as easy to handle as gouache but with as much body as oil. Last week 16 of Zerbe's new plastic paintings were on view at Manhattan's Alan Gallery. Painter...
...critics were pleased, and so was Zerbe. He has not yet tried mixing his paints with rose water, uranium or pâté de foie gras, and, for the time being, at least, he intends to stick to polymer tempera...
Seen across a room, the picture looked rather like an abstraction. Somber in color, it had a surging quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait...
...Indian painters stick to the brutally, sensuous Brahman school of temple art or turn out dreamy, idealized mythological figures. But almost all ignore India's primitive, bold village art. Not so Jamini Roy, who has drawn much inspiration from it and combined it with a slick modernity. His tempera panels show village girls, Bengali dancers, mothers and children, such scenes as Gosto, the flute-playing God of Love, and his friends tending the cows, all of them almost toylike figures with flat, stylized bodies and immense almond eyes...