Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice that you have used paintings of Artist S. J Woolf. It occurred to me that you migh. be able to inform me where I can purchase a copy, suitable for framing, of one of his pictures. The picture is the one that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine of Sunday, July 31, 1927, and shows an immigrant family arriving in New York harbor in front of the Statue of Liberty. The Tribune was unable to assist me in the matter. Possibly through your connection with this artist you can assist...
...discovering genius. Lee Simonson has some claim to the first, by virtue of his stage designs executed for the Theatre Guild (Manhattan). He may have some claim to the second as a result of his announced revelation that Diego Rivera, Mexican painter of little international repute, is the greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage...
...series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental and emotional proceedings in his characters, distort ed by their depth into shapes of beauty or ugliness, magnified or diminished with varying degrees of intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest's mind there float childhood memories, fragments of verse, scraps of conversation, encounters real...
According to the present interpretation of the immigration law, anyone who makes his living by making musical sounds is an "artist" and as such, is entitled to admission into the U. S. regardless of his national quota...
...last analysis, it amounts to a problem in definition. What is an "artist"? The Labor Department holds that "a professional musician is properly regarded as a professional artist for the purpose of exemption." The Union would restrict the term "artist" to "one who is adept, has attained great knowledge and skill in the fine art known as music and who, as a vocation, practices that art for the advancement and welfare of mankind" (Paderewski, Kreisler, Ysaye, Toscanini...