Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...smacking an olive- skinned almond-eyed dastard, Hero Dix procured the favors of a Señorita who satisfied him, the observer is persuaded, for the time being, at least. His grotesque antics against the billowy countryside has, unconsciously, the same effect of satire as has a portrait by Artist Zuloaga...
Clearly, they saw, these pictures could not be measured against tradition. The eye sees a head, a landscape, a pattern of concrete objects. All traditional Art, admitting as important this thing seen, accents the reaction of the artist to what he sees, recognizes as an accidental requisite to the presentation of subject and the personality of the artist, the element of style-form, line, color. The artist, running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that...
Born. To James Montgomery Flagg, 48, artist, and Mrs. Flagg (Dorothy Wadman, 26, model for many of his magazine covers), a daughter, Faith; in Manhattan...
...artist worth $30,000 a year...