LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.-Painter, a graphic designer, a writer, an educator and a publisher of art books, Robert Perine, died at age 81. He led the creation of an art school based on Los Angeles' historic Chouinard Art Institute. He graduated of Chouinard who later taught there, Perine in 1985 wrote and published a historic account of the freewheeling art school's development and transformation into the Disney-financed CalArts in Valencia. The title of his book summed up his opinion: Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed. A dozen years after the book renewed interest in the creative school, Perine and Dave Tourje, an artist and contractor, co-founded the Chouinard Foundation. The original school founded by the late Nelbert Murphy Chouinard, a World War I widow, had operated from 1921 until 1972.