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FIGURE PAINTING
I have a lot of work to do around the house but when I take a break it's fun to go through my files of clippings from old art magazines. Here's (above) an interesting artist I just rediscovered. Sorry,...
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WHY WALLY WOOD LEFT MAD MAGAZINE
That's the young Wally Wood above, maybe (I'm guessing) from the period just before Kurtzman began Mad in 1952. Wood was onboard starting with the very first issue.That's Al Feldstein above, the artist...
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LUC SANTE'S "THE OTHER PARIS"
Here I am posting about old Paris again. This photo (above) from the Paris Exposition isn't really typical of its period but I can't get that event out of mind, so it finds a place here. Thinking...
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RODIN'S BALZAC
'Want more Christmas gift ideas? Why not get one of those Rodin books that are in the bookstores now?It's possible that Rodin was the greatest sculptor of all time, a man capable of great force and...
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR ARTSY PEOPLE
Here's some more Christmas gift ideas! How 'bout one of Hattie Stewart's posters (above)?No? Well, how 'bout a poster of Dora Maar, one of Picasso's favorite models? I'm guessing this photo (above) was...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS and A WONDERFUL 2017!
Merry Christmas all you Theory Cornerites!!!! It's a great time of year, isn't it!?Gee, it brings back memories of my childhood when my parents used to take me to the big department stores to Christmas...
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MY CHRISTMAS 2016
How was your Christmas? Mine was wonderful, just wonderful, what with my family all around me and an unusual Christmas Eve church service that I'll tell you about here.It was a cold night outside the...
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THINKING ABOUT HOUSES
Now that Christmas is over my thoughts turn once again to what kind of house I can expect to live in when I move out of L.A. (Sigh!) I'll miss the California ranch style (above).If I end up with a...
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WHAT KIND OF HOUSE?
I don't know what kind of house I'll end up with. I'm hoping that I can find something the town eccentric used to live in, or a house made from a barn or an old workshop. If so, I can have a living...
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FAUX HOUSES
It's amazing but true: it's possible to create a house where about a third or a fourth of the elements are fake. By that I mean fake landscaping...including fake trees, grass and hedges..., fake porch,...
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REC ROOMS
If I have a basement rec room in my new home then I'd like to have a wide, square coffee table like the one above. I like to work while I watch TV and I like to spread out when I'm working, so a table...
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YET MORE CARICATURES
I just found some more caricatures! Here's one of me by Lenard Robinson. Not bad, eh?This (above) isn't a caricature but I want to include it anyway. It was a gift from Katie Rice! It was meant to be a...
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LESSER KNOWN RODIN
Shocking! How did he ever think of adding all that mass to the shoulders? "Headless Nude Torso: Study for Balzac, 38", plaster, 1893-95. I love the earthy solidity of this figure. It would have...
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LAUTREC AND THE MOULIN ROUGE
I'm writing this to make a point about the purpose of the best pictorial art, but I'll need to set up an example first, and for that I offer the Moulin Rouge (above), the famous Parisian dance hall and...
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AN IDEAL HOUSE!
I just saw the 2006 Gwyneth Paltrow movie, "Proof." It was director Director John Madden's next film after "Shakespeare in Love," a film I watched at least a half dozen times. I'm tempted to talk about...
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THE LATEST TREND IN ART
What's the latest trend in art? That's a good question!We're departing from previous 50s-type Modern Art, no doubt about that. 50s art was often about weird organic shapes. Here's (above) a piece by...
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JEAN-JACQUES SEMPE: GENIUS
Here's (above) a view of Parisian rooftops by the underrated (underrated in the USA, that is) Paris Match and New Yorker cartoonist, Jean-Jacques Sempe. I imagine that Sempe's work has special appeal...
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THE HOUSE FROM "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN"
Architecture is on my mind these days, and I thought I'd talk about another favorite film house...this one from the 1945 thriller, "Leave Her to Heaven." The stars: Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde. The...
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT MISTAKES
Like most people I'm a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, but he's not above making mistakes. Nobody is. I thought it might be fun to review some of his faux pas.Let's face it. A lot of his chairs don't...
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