Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alumni Bulletin, Issued yesterday, there appeared a reproduction of a painting of Dr. Brackett, made by Alfred E. Smith, the prominent Boston artist, which is shortly to have a permanent place in the balls of the Dental School...
Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, artist, litterateur, usually spoken of as a mild-mannered moderate: "I believe the Russian people and their posterity will always acknowledge that the Red Terror was the best page in Soviet history...
Immediately upon the death of Mr. Caruso, it was the intention of his widow to build a chapel worthy of this great artist and man in which his body might rest for all time. All arrangements were made, and it was calculated that three months would elapse before the structure would finally be completed. Meantime, Mrs. Caruso preferred that her late husband's body rest somewhere else than in an exposed grave, and she made arrangements with friends of the family to keep it in a private chapel until the new one should be finished...
...tree behind it, he is in the latter class?an academician. If, on the other hand, he sees a toppling multicolored cube atilt against an oblong vegetable, with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe. Such a one may be a member of the artist colony of Woodstock, Mass., whose pictures were last week on exhibit at the Boston Art Club. These artists are the Whigs of modern painting, an aesthetic Jacobin Club. Followers of the innovations of Derain and Picasso, their art is to intensify reality by warping it, to convince by deception. Notably...
...tear and thought of the Bal Bullier. Critical opinion next morning proclaimed that "Madame Karsavina is a very beautiful woman who gives much pleasure" (The New York Times) ; that "Madame Karsavina is one of the best dancers actively extant" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; that "Madame Karsavina is an artist of the first rank. She possesses technique, grace and eloquence of gesture and pose" (New York American). But no one suggested that the epithet that has adorned, in small black letters, so many billboards, should be one tittle altered-the epithet which inspires the most arrogant advertisement in the world...