Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Fine wrote about music in Boston for the magazine. "Modern Music," a quarterly written entirely by composers. But he sees the value of criticism by composers more for what it reveals of the artist himself than as important opinion on other works...
Whispered or asked in a clear unabashed voice, no question is heard more often in a modern art gallery. The answers-whether supplied by highbrow critics, crusty crusaders, or well-meaning friends of the artist-are rarely very conclusive. This week, one Manhattan gallery tried the sensible experiment of letting the artists speak for themselves. It put on a group show of 23 U.S. painters (including some of the best) and invited each of them to contribute 75 words of explanation for the exhibition catalogue...
...Sample's statement by saying that a work that was exceedingly well painted might very well be omitted if the jury felt that it was not genuinely eloquent or expressive, or if the technique chosen did not appear to have been honestly felt or arrived at by the artist...
Leaving aside the critical fallacy involved in judging an artist's work by guessing at his "intentions," Miss Genauer came down with both high heels on Rattner's rationalization. "It is easy," she wrote, "to spot technical proficiency quickly, but to decide on the honesty of an artist's approach on the basis of only one of his works, and that examined at an average speed of two or three pictures a minute, takes considerable doing...
...denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight was to paint . . . walls . . . with pictures of Mephistopheles . . . As a child...