Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books, some of those novels, but sometimes just too frustratingly weird. Crews also used to write a column called "Grits" for the pre-Felker Esquire, and the best of them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead; a poacher takes Crews alligator hunting in the Florida swamps. And now in A Childhood, we have an account which blends the best of the columns and the best of the novels with the life that produced Crews' brutal imagination...
Olympic Champ John Curry turns old sport into new art...
...painter Giorgio de Chirico died of a heart attack in Rome last week. He was 90, and his death removed one of the last connections between our day and the formative years of modern art. Nearly all who created the modernist vocabulary between 1900 and 1930 are dead. Four remain: Marc Chagall, 91; Joan Mird, 85; Sonia Delaunay, 93; and Salvador Dali, 74. None have produced much work of consequence in recent years; posterity will not have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact...
Between 1912 and 1920, De Chirico produced a series of images?his pittura metafisica, or metaphysical painting?that altered the history of modernism. His empty colonnades and squares, populated by statues and shadows, exerted a vast influence on the growth of a specifically surrealist art. Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dali all paid homage to the liberating power of early De Chirico. He seemed to have made the actions of the dreaming mind more accessible, vivid and poignant than any other painter. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond...
...repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico was a master, as the old maestro was not. Every square or colonnade in the world now looks different...