Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pasted her cousin, Sammy Colt, 36, so she, Diana, gave Tierney what-for, as he stood there with his shirt off, "like Tarzan." And furthermore, she said: "You dreary, dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit me." Then she slapped his face eight times. The party, given by Artist John Decker, climaxed in six simultaneous fist fights, but nobody but Jack LaRue lost enough blood to be worth bothering about...
Eight years later, when Modigliani turned up in Paris, he was still not much of an artist, and it was already obvious that his time was short. His lungs were bad. A black-eyed, elegant young fellow, he kept to himself, painted furiously, and destroyed most of it as he went along. Soon Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo and Brancusi took him up, introduced him to cubism, African sculpture, and cafe life. The combination freed him from his academic inhibitions: he began painting pictures that were worth keeping. Then he set about destroying himself...
Gallery-goers who had come to expect murky realism of Charles Ephraim Burchfield were in for a surprise. Artist Burchfield has had a violent shift of purpose. One of the top half-dozen painters of the "American Scene," Burchfield, at 52, has decided that the look of a scene is not enough. Said he last week, as his first Manhattan show since 1943 opened: "Subject matter can be distracting; I'm trying to paint more what I feel...
...Author Max White fluttered the critics with a first novel (Tiger Tiger) about the life and lively loves of a fictional U.S. artist. Now he has romanticized the life and livelier loves of a historical tartar-Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, Spain's famed 18th-Century etcher and painter...
Academicians were scandalized when Artist Goya found favor with King Charles IV of Spain. An accomplished duelist, harpsichordist and guitar player, as well as an unrivaled Casanova, Goya delighted the ladies and enraged the courtiers. His intuition was as astonishing as his lack of tact. "You look like the kind of man who goes about [burning] harmless prostitutes," he once remarked to an amiable old monk, who later became a prominent member of the Inquisition. His amorous ferocity was equally pronounced. "If I loved a woman, I shouldn't hesitate to use intimidation if all other methods failed...