Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme of Robert Lee Frost's life is a conflict between staying and going. Staying, for him, has meant standing by a poetic conscience such as has been given to few American poets-in complete disregard of any lesser audience. Going has meant playing the artist more than the man-and winning a public success which he never intended and partly distrusts. Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay...
...finds that he has to buy, not one but six different catalogues for an aggregate cost of $4.75. Oh, well, it will make the old lady happy, so what the . . .?" > "Mrs. B. reads the catalogue to find out all about the picture. What does she find? What made the artist famous, or why the picture is so valuable . . .? Of course not. There is something about references and where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves, he has to pay another admission. . . ." > "It would cost very little...
...Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure 15 years ago, now accepted as a modern masterpiece...
...something to be started at by the members at a Ladies' Saturday Afternoon Club who will whisper in ignorant admiration and then speed home to play bridge. Art is neither hide-bound nor rigid but a sincere and amazingly human way of providing for the necessary satisfaction of both artist and audience...
Plato once said that the excellence or beauty of every structure is relative to the use for which the artist has intended it. In other words, an object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill...