Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the War, Augustus John was an artist of great personal as well as esthetic eclat. He was elected to the Royal Academy whereupon he increased his reputation for daring independence by sending a picture to the Academy Exhibition which he followed up with this remark: "I never asked them to admit me. I never sent them a picture until after they elected...
...found that the canvas was too big to fit. Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John: "The grossest, most deliberately gratuitous insult I have ever received." The students at the Slade School marched through the streets of London, carrying headless effigies of Lord Leverhulme which they burned. All over Italy, artists, dealers, masons, picture packers, illustrators-everyone who had anything to do with...
...Artist Flayed...
What had the artist against the explorer to do such a thing and where was your art editor when he let it pass...
...Translator. The translator who can be accurate and yet idiomatic is both craftsman and artist. Such a one is Scott Moncrieff, translator of difficult Marcel Proust. And such a one is Arthur Waley, translator of exquisite Chinese poetry and of the monumental Japanese novel by Lady Murasaki. Translator Waley learned both Japanese and the still more difficult Chinese from native teachers in London. He has never been east of Suez, and yet he is a recognized authority on literature and art of the Far East. By profession Assistant in the Oriental Section of the British Museum Print Room, his favorite...