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...teens of this century-Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger-the first to die was also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing of importance until 1910, and uremia killed him in 1927 just after...
...pastel, Abstraction After a Stained-Glass Window in the Cluny Museum, dates from 1900, fully a decade before the mutual creation of abstract art by Larionov, Kupka, Kandinsky and Arthur Dove. Amiet's work, though less aggressively avantgarde, is also of more than parochial quality. After his early apprenticeship with Gauguin's disciples in the Pont-Aven group, he never lost his interest in broad, ripe patternings of color. The colors - as in Apple Harvest, 1907 - could attain an ecstatic, ballooning lightness...
...best work onstage comes from men of 40 and up. That is when the heart begins to creep into the technique in England, and when actors in America learn not to indulge themselves." Meanwhile, audiences can look forward to the next eight years of apprenticeship...
...West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled them. Nevertheless, it was recognized that one could hardly attain mastery of the brush before...
With his life, Nagare's artistic style has changed. In his bachelor years between marriages, he conceived a stylized image of a kimonoed man in contemplation (Thoughts and Angles), derived from youthful memories of his apprenticeship in a Zen temple. Long contemplation also produced the series he calls Bachi, reflecting the shape of the pick with which Japanese geishas play the samisen. Actually, Nagare says, "Bachi tells the importance of being broadminded. The lines spread out as they climb higher...