Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets along fine without Sargent's dramatic slickness. What's more, his art, admittedly academic, has enough sparkle to put the stuffy Academicians to shame. At 70, Augustus John and his works are living proof that it makes very little difference what "school" a really good artist belongs...
...published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...
Fanny Cohen, 4O-year-old artist, tearfully commented: "She is such a dear old lady, and becomes dearer every year. How I would like to lunch with her! When I met her I would like her to say, 'Hello, Miss Cohen,' and I would say, 'Hello, Queen.' " Said a Negro waiter from Dutch Guiana: "People come and go, but it will seem strange without Wilhelmina...
That modern art is a frightful thing is an opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...
...Sabartés filed the note away, along with scraps of dialogue by the master, and embedded them all in Picasso: An Intimate Portrait (Prentice-Hall; $5), a book out this week. Sabartés evidently thinks that every detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...