Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...
...last week Modigliani the man was half-forgotten, but the artist was in the news again. An exhibition of 31 of his portraits and seven of his nudes was packing Parisians into the swank Calorie de France. Paintings which he had once sold for the price of a few drinks were valued at 1,000,000 francs. Said an art critic of L'Ordre: "Modigliani became a legend the day of his death. Everyone was bewildered at not having encouraged, supported, foreseen his genius...
...best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes...
Many a U.S. schoolboy has wandered in the bright worlds into which Artist N.C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
...twelve years she is not singing at the Metropolitan this winter-although in San Francisco she recently sang her greatest role, the Marschallin, in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. She regrets that Strauss did not oppose Naziism more actively, but says: "Shall one expect that a great artist is also a great person? I know artists with lousy characters. It is strange that the gift is given sometimes to a shell that is not worthy of it, nicht...