Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Restless Artist Giacometti was troubled by the fact that he couldn't do all his job at once. If he started on the tip of the nose, the rest of the face would lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender...
Huston has no truck with theories of esthetics or questions of style; his sharp directing is intuitive. He has a coldly intelligent knowledge of how much to leave free within the frame, and the born artist's passion for the possibilities of his medium. "In a given scene," he says, "I have an idea what should happen, but I don't tell the actors. Instead I tell them to go ahead and do it. Sometimes they do it better. Sometimes they do something accidentally which is effective and true. I jump on the accident...
...before U.S. saloons and Americans fought mosquitoes at park concerts for the sweet sake of culture. Music was now a product to be seized by machinery, to be packaged, distributed and sold in wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven Ninth and Too Fat Polka ("I don't want her, You can have...
Where were Brazil's Communist big shots? Leader Prestes was variously reported hiding in Sao Paulo and streaking off for Montevideo, where a Latin-American Cominform is rumored for the near future. Already there was famed Communist Artist Candido Portinari. Last week at least, brilliant young Architect Oscar Niemeyer was sticking...
Whatever became of all those WPA murals? Artist Bernard Zakheim, who had painted one, found out last week what had happened to his. Visiting the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, Zakheim came upon a man busily pasting wallpaper over his mural history of medicine in California. After urging the paperhanger to desist, he bustled desperately off to find the dean of the college. Sorry, said the dean, "they are very interesting, but ... for years now faculty members have complained. The murals distract students attending lectures...