Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
...birthday, the Nazi invaders of Norway tried to get local credit by holding an exhibition of his work, but he refused them. Last week, three days after his death, a memorial exhibition was opened in Stockholm. The show's walls could not help suggesting the words of the artist: "Sometime there must be an end to paintings of knitting women and reading men. I shall paint people who love and suffer...
Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
...solid middle-class parents (his father was a poulterer) in London, 43 years ago. For a while he was a layout man for an advertising firm. In idle moments he jotted down elaborate titles for hypothetical films. He took them to British International Pictures, was immediately hired as title artist. At 26, Hitch was a director...
After the Rabbit. Pale, soft, charming-and accurate- watercolors graced the pages of this story. Beatrix Potter had long been an accomplished amateur artist when her book appeared. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was followed by 21 other children's books-tales of Squirrel Nutkin, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Potterites of all ages had their favorites, but connoisseurs would probably agree that the masterpiece was The Tailor of Gloucester...