Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenderness & Gloom. In Stuempfig's case, romantic art seemed to mean painting that sacrificed everything else to mood. His The Old Man, one of the hits of the exhibition, showed both the strength and weakness of Stuempfig's approach to art...
Along with most of his contemporaries, Stuempfig has tried his hand at abstract art, but only once. "I was told to paint an abstraction," says he, "and I did it, in school, where all abstractions belong. But at the Pennsylvania Academy where I studied I tried to resist the tendency of the average art student to like the obvious -the obvious being Picasso and Matisse...
...widower with two sons, 8 and 12, Stuempfig somehow combines his absorption in art with "generally fulfilling the job of parent. It's either work or stomach ulcers for me because if I don't paint I get sick." For the last 15 years he has been painting an average 56-hour week, alternately learning and ignoring his craft...
...intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...
...voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous but endearing old matriarch...