Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never seen a picture of him half as good," she wrote Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker. "It is truly startlingly lifelike. I have no idea of what your method is-though obviously you must work from photograph-but the result is wonderfully real...
...painting from photographs, but Baker-faced with the obvious impossibility of getting a busy air marshal in England to sit for his portrait one week and Lord Wavell in India the next-has made a virtue of necessity and developed such an effective new technique that The American Artist says his TIME covers are creating "a sensation in artistic circles...
...true that no Jap is going to be killed by an artist's brush. . . ." So cracked Art Digest's Peyton Boswell at Congress' refusal to appropriate $125,000 for war orders: contracts with 19 artists to record the gory glory of World War II (TIME, July 19). But the country need not worry. U.S. artists will not be denied the best subjects in the history of man-made destruction...
...Generalissimo, as for all his countrymen, it was an hour of deep sorrow. Tzu-ch'ao* was both a scholar and an artist. To his people he personified the Chinese proverb: "Great Wisdom Looks Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When...
...held professorships in three Italian universities. Dissection was an art he had practiced from childhood. In his medical-school days in Paris, he had sometimes taken over demonstrations from his teachers. As a teacher himself he wanted improved diagrams to illustrate his written text. In search of an artist, he may have gone to Titian's workshop. Certainly some of the Titian-style drawings he commissioned were by Calcar...