A popular art novelty of the year is letting the public in to watch a painter at work. One nice thing about it, say publicists, is that the painters enjoy their gallery as much as it enjoys them.
Last week the novelty was being tried at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The painter was famed Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. But in this case the mutual enjoyment was not a neat 50-50. The painter apparently did not like all those people looking over his shoulder.
First few days he did his best to play up to the packed onlookers, politely answered questions, politely...
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