Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that: to create a summer center as renowned in art as the Berkshires' Tanglewood festival is in music. Plans are under way for a huge, round exhibition hall and theater patterned on 18th Century Vermont's barns, to make next year's exhibition bucolic inside & out. Artist Fausett, who helped hang last week's show, was particularly pleased with the idea. In a round barn, he mused, no one could complain of being hung in a corner...
...seventh child of a rich silk merchant, Van Dyck was an artist at 16, with his own studio and students. He did fine, for Antwerp rattled with commerce and bulged with gold; and its beefy, bearded burghers all wanted portraits of themselves and their wives. But the aristocratic little portraitist was far from satisfied with his own work. At 19 he got admittance to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke, and at 20 went back to school, at Rubens' feet...
...guiding law . . ." Ortega concludes, "is one of disturbing simplicity. First things are painted; then, sensations; finally, ideas. This means that in the beginning the artist's attention was fixed on external reality; then, on the subjective; finally, on the intrasubjective. These three stages are three points on a straight line...
...Artist Dean Fausett had painted a creditable landscape of hills, trees and varicolored underbrush. The health message, tacked on by Upjohn: BREEDING PLACES FOR SNEEZES-WHEEZES. Earl Kerkam had painted a lugubrious gentleman, tired and mistrustful. Upjohn had labeled it, HAVE YOU LEARNED TO LIVE WTH A STOMACH ULCER? A painting by Alexander James was captioned SKIN TROUBLE IN MEN AND WOMEN. Fletcher Martin's painting of a lovely, pearly-skinned girl was titled ANEMIA...
Straight-Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...