Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures or on the modern stage...
...prospect, it looked like just another Manhattan debut, of which there are 300 every year. The New York Times did not even send a critic to Carnegie Hall. The Herald Tribune sent its second-stringer, Jerome D. Bohm. He and a tiny audience of ushers and friends of the artist had the 2,800-seat Carnegie Hall to themselves...
...haired woman of 35, her face was heavily rouged to cover the pallor of the past six years. Her U.S. sponsors wanted her to wear a corset; she refused ("I have to feel what I play from the legs up"). Says Maryla: "My first concert is European. Come one artist in old dress, no photogenic, no smiling. Then come complications. The criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play too pianissimo, too fortissimo, my hair, I am too fat, my dress. My second concert is American concert. Everyone come to see am I really so good...
...Roman Empire and 18th-Century Europe. ... It -is aimed at inconsistency and hypocrisy. It exposes polite cruelty and folly by exaggerating them. It seeks to produce shame. All this has no place in the century of the Common Man where vice no longer pays lip service to virtue. The artist's only service to the disintegrated society of today is to create little . . . systems of order of his own. I foresee in the Dark Age opening that the scribes may play the part of the monks after the first barbarian victories. They were not satirists...
Says Capp, who insists he really is a Tracy fan: "Anybody who says Gould isn't a great artist is just crazy. He sets out to tell an honest horror story and he does it, with force and a minimum of trouble. And it's just plain horrible. It's the only comic strip I read...