Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music. He is a noted artist, and is known to every Boy Scout of America as Pathfinder Jim, Chief Sea Scout, the man who organized the Sea Scouts of America. C. S. STANWORTH
Director Cruze thinks of money in big terms. For a long time his Paramount salary was $1,000 a day-whether he worked or not. Last week he sued John Decker, artist, for $200,000 damages...
...Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted...
...Artist Decker then displayed the portrait in a Hollywood art store window with the legend: ''James Cruze-in Prison for Debt." The Cruze suit followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...