Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What the art world needs is to get rid of the bright people-the intellectuals," declared roughhewn Painter Thomas Hart Benton, in New Orleans on a lecture tour. "There are too many intellectuals anyway. Theoretically it's possible for an artist to be an intellectual, but it's not likely . . . Artists don't need brains...
...Artist Grandma Moses, 88, who rarely strays far from Eagle Bridge, N.Y. for subject matter for her famed primitives, was unimpressed with New York City. "It's nice to be here," she admitted cautiously, "but the city don't appeal to me." "As picture material?" somebody asked. "As any material," she replied, firmly. Then she took the train down to Washington, where she got the Women's National Press Club annual award for art, and the even more impressive compliment of unwavering attention from President...
...Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
...other game Dudley's left-handed slow ball artist, Bob Leverone, led the Commuters to a 7 to 3 victory over Winthrop. Miron Goldberg homered for Dudley, and Al McKenzie homered for the Puritans...
...sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with "convulsions" at the sight of the living...