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[[strikethrough]] May 15 [[/strikethrough]]
Tuesday Dec.21

AM- went to see the carpenter who made my stretchers & easel. The palette will be ready tomorrow (he insists on presenting it to me!)
 
I showed him how to stretch the canvasses & worked with him on them - handling the pliers, myself. Again- it was pleasing to see how eager they are to learn about these things.
   
Saw on the way an old man (probably 70) sitting under a tree - having a hairdo of flowers arranged on his bare skull by some young girls - I asked the reason, & was told he was going to be married
(custom).

Also observed how a house was being built. Eight young men & girls were standing in a row & throwing the bricks from one to the other - till they reached the builders. (Like a game of ball)
  
After lunch, read an article by James Johnson Sweeney in Harper's Bazaar- October 54 issue.

                      
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[[strikethrough]] May 16 [[/strikethrough]]
Tues. Dec. 21

on the 'Young Guard Painters' in Paris. Bazaine, Deyrolle, Soulages, Lapicque, Manessier, Mathieu, Karel Appel (from Amsterdam) Pablo Palazuelo (from Madrid) Hans Hartung (from Leipsig) Jean-Paul Riopelle (Montreal) Simon Hantai (Hungarian) Maria Helena Vieira da Silva & her husband Arpad Szenes (Hungarian) Lanskoy & Poliakoff (Moscow) Raoul Ubac & Gustave Singier (Belgium)
 
Older group - Pierre Tal Coat
George Hillairean, Serge Poliakoff
Jean Bazaine & Szenes.
 
Younger group - Francois Arnal 1924
Simon Hantai '22 - George Matthieu '21
Soulages '19, Jean Degottey 1918.
  
'The most widespread characteristic of Paris art today is an interest in exploration, in adventure. Each artist shows his strength in making something different out of what he sees - something personal to himself, but primarily real as a painting, not as

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