Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White's idea costs money. Last week, he reported a $30,000 deficit to his trustees. It didn't seem to bother him. "That's as it should be," he beamed. "A school of this sort should have deficit activities. Artist-teachers demand, rightfully, artists' fees, which most students cannot afford. What's the solution? Endowment. We want five million dollars...
Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...
Today, the pebble is scratched beyond all recognition. The surface is covered with several hundred fine lines, and scientists couldn't tell an ibex from a rhinoceros until they called in an artist...
...rest, he let the paintings speak for themselves, and they did a good job of proving that Bloom, whatever his subject, was a first-rate artist, who could daub color as rich as Rouault's, weave oils over and under each other with an unerring eye, hit his spectators hard with whatever his imagination wanted to get across...
...made them was a prosperous and beloved illustrator of French children's books (Filles et Garçons; Nos Enfants'), but by no means a famous artist in his own time. Only gradually has it become clear that Boutet de Monvel has cinched his own special place among the immortals of art, by modestly slipping through the gate that many more gifted painters try, and fail, to force...