Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education of high quality. I agree, also, with the unanimous verdict concerning the alleged representation of me which appears upon the cover. ... I don't believe that even my worst enemies would say that today I resemble the wrinkled, grey-haired old man to whom TIME'S artist signed my name...
...apiece. Something told Bombois he could do as well; he tried, and found he could do better. When the dealers brought Bombois' work in off the curb and started selling it against velvet-draped gallery walls, he figured he was ready to set up as a full-time artist...
...only extraverted thing about Yeats is his clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
Lewis Carroll sketched pretty well, for an amateur, but he preferred not to illustrate his own books. Instead, he kept a critical eye on Artist John Tenniel. He instructed Tenniel not to give Alice "so much crinoline," and warned that "the White Knight must not 'have whiskers." It bothered him that Tenniel never used a model. "Tenniel vows he no more needs one than I should need a multiplication table to work out a mathematical problem. . . ." But in the end it was Tenniel who made Alice's Wonderland, and the other side of the Looking-Glass, places that...
...dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...