Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Gertrude Stein was talking (in 1939) about a dapper British baronet who also happened to be an artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose's last London exhibition ten years ago; but not even Stein could then make Rose's work smell sweet to British critics. Last week things were different: Rose's new show at London's plush little Gimpel Fils Gallery had blossomed into a triumph...
...Horse-Painter Munnings and Subjective-Artist Matisse [TIME...
Suppose we have a dog who is a subjective artist. He is greatly moved by a sunset and transfers his emotion to paper in the form of a vague line which to him means the father and mother of all bones. This interpretation of the sunset is strictly subjective; it does not attract and may repel non-dogs who do not share the artist's experience and digestive system...
Subjective art is imperialism; the painter insists that everyone's reaction should be the same as his-a childish piece of egotism. The objective artist is democratic; he keeps his personality out of it. He does not say: "This is what I saw." He says: "This is what was to be seen...
What British Artist Eric Gill meant, when he wrote those words, was that he could see no common ground between his own religious sense and the kind of subjective, self-celebrating Art that moderns most admire. Bearded, bespectacled Gill never believed in Art. He believed in the arts-"with a small 'a' and an 's'-whether it be the art of cooking or that of painting portraits or church pictures. But that's a very different matter and puts the 'artist' under the obligation of knowing what he is making...