Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Save for Phaon, a lovechild of 12, and an orphaned girl-baby called Deodata by her poetic foster-mother, the numerous survivors of the wrecked S. S. Cormorant are all mature women. There are an artist, a circus rider, a novelist, a harlot, a U. S. debutante, a doctor, a mystic, a Negress, many miscellaneous. Most are young, most are beautiful, or soon rendered excessively so by life upon the paradisiacal island of their Robinson Crusade. The aging artist, Anni Prächtel, assumes the presidency of the Mother State, which, by shrewd conscription of mental and spiritual resources, soon...
Frank Brangwyn, the English artist whose exhibition followed that of the more popular and better advertised Zuloaga at the Vose Galleries last winter, seeks a human likeness to his conception of Christ. A short while ago the original model, an Italian ice cream vendor, died. Since then the artist has searched Europe in vain for one to take his place. This painting of the Christ was to be the great achievement, crowning all others, which was to complete Mr. Branwyn's artistic career. And now it is doomed to remain without a face. For nowhere can he find features with...
...Hunter, whose engaging, undergraduate manner and appearance belie his high attainments as an artist, stopped long enough to answer a question as to his opinion of how the play-goers of this country will accept a theme as thoroughly English as that of the "public school...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...
...going to become an artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked...