Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Terry's argument is with famed Artist Gustave...
...feel sure Noah constructed the Ark in this manner. Unfortunately, the artist did not. I think we should be as nearly exact as possible in such matters...
...been for the Nazis, Villon might never have done so well as an artist. With his wife, he fled Paris a jump ahead of the German army in 1940 and spent three disconsolate months near Toulouse. There he did the first landscapes of his career-neatly representational sketches that might have been made by an architect on vacation. Then he wandered back to Paris and spent the rest of the war years turning out cubist paintings based on his landscape sketches...
Next day, De Chirico's own paintings came in for some hard words. "The new De Chirico," said the Manchester Guardian, "is evidently a great admirer of Rubens. The knights in armor, the nudes and most of the landscape backgrounds appear to derive from that artist . . . but the overemphatic drawing, the heavy black shadows, the rather meaningless color are very different...
...bound to do Dickens? Anybody but Dickens will be a comedown after Shakespeare and G.B.S." Pearson, who is Britain's most fecund literary biographer* and a Dickens fan to boot, heartily agreed; and although his Dickens reveals more about the man and his life than about the artist and his novels, it is nonetheless the best-balanced, most complete biography to date...