Word: artist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
...make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...
...bring a man's intellect to the proper pitch for producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what he is doing is worth while, whether it is recognized or not. This is the challenge which must be flung to those who are professionalizing art in this country as our business and even...
...Italian and two Flemish paintings have just been placed on exhibition in the main gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The Italian picture is called "The Magdalen" and is the work of the distinguished provincial artist, Alessandro Bonvicino (1498-1554), called Moretto da Brescia. This picture is particularly interesting because it suggests certain Venetian types and at the same time illustrates so well a technical quality that marks the difference between the Venetian and Brescian art of the High Renaissance. Hero, as in so many of the best examples of the art of Brescia, there is harmony of cool silvery...
...left, a buoy floating on the crest of the wave and a group of small boats in the middle distance are balanced by a single sailboat and the pier and city of Calais, seen in the extreme distance at the right. The near point of view chosen by the artist permits of every detail in the two boats, which form the central subject of the picture, being clearly delineated. The larger one, seen from fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted...