Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Social Life. Black Mountain's faculty of 20 includes a batch of noted European refugees, such as Artist Josef Albers of the Bauhaus (TIME, Dec. 19, 1938), and New Dealish Americans such as Econo mist Clark Foreman...
Salvador Dali's mustaches performed for Lucius Beebe, who reported in his column that he had noted their "convulsive flutterings and bristlings" in a Manhattan nightclub as the misfortunate artist spied "a pair of absolutely identical handlebars" across the room...
...leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
...broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...
...doubtful whether Leonardo ever embraced a woman in love. . ." Leonardo's first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science...