Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene is an American artist's studio in Paris. The plot, an effort to show that love can regenerate the wayward. Pedro de Cordoba is the artist; Doris Kenyon, the model who loved him so hard she died. Presumably he forswore, thereafter, his failings and proceeded to the creation of manifold masterpieces...
...skeptical. Wherefore, France and the world of science contributed last week a new practical test for the discovery of fakes. Ultraviolet rays and colored lights thrown upon the paintings under suspicion show, when photographed, the method of brush-work and the exact kind of pigment used by the artist...
Mahonri Young, sculptor, gave proof "to the public" at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, that art is a trade and a craft and that "there is nothing mysterious about being an artist." Before 300 amused spectators he worked 50 pounds of wet clay into "a sketch of Joseph Peennell," etcher (TIME, Jan. 14). Both chatted continuously...
...Peacemaking paused while the Allied statesmen turned to watch an embarrassed artist of international reputation subside into his seat. A few rows back of him a flushed Emporia, Kans., editor?of similar reputation? likewise dropped down into his seat, amid audible whispers of 'Good for you, Bill White...
Assurance that "there is nothing mysterious about being an artist...