Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juan Gris, least-known artist of the four, was, with Picasso and Braque, a founder of Cubism, and remained, far more than they, a constant adherent of Cubistic methods until his death in 1927. Cold and monotonous at first glance, Gris' ascetically detached still-lifes reveal, upon longer acquaintance, an almost architectural formal structure, an ingenious flattening and simplification of natural forms, and a sure if quiet color sense...
Voice of the Layman. No artist, scientist or professor is dark, energetic David Silberman, born 49 years ago on Manhattan's teeming lower East Side. David Silberman is a man with a flair for developing machinery. President of the Cap-Tin Development Corp., he employs 75 to 100 people and makes about $1,000,000 worth of zippers per year in 10,000 square feet of space at 578 Broadway...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose somber fantasies went almost unnoticed until after he died in 1917, once remarked that "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...
...greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough to stick in the public's mind...