Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mathis der Maler," was a unique marriage of a composer's conception and an orchestra's performance. Hindemith's re-creation of Matthias' paintings from the Isenheim Alter, the Angelic Concert," the "Entombment," and the "Temptation of St. Anthony," in sound brings out all the unearthly power of the artist's work and a hint of his personal distractions and struggles. In Dr. Koussevitzky's hands, the intense score glowed and shuddered almost hypnotically until the final great D-flat Major chords. It would be difficult to conceive of a greater performance of this work...
...dreams of the future had room for what appeared to be acid caricatures of contemporary governmental officials. (Rivera explained that any resemblances were coincidental: "It's only because living people frequently run to type.") But few could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist...
...economy of line and color, and airy pastoral scenes with pipe-playing centaurs, a goddess and dancing goats. Picasso had painted his new pictures on the scene, behind locked doors (TIME, Jan. 13). The castle's old guide, Pierre, used to tell tourists that there was "a crazy artist" in the studio, but now Pierre spends his evenings reading up on Picasso...
produced last spring, this story of a hunted man and his struggle back to safety is too well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie...
Among the divers, Tom Drohan carried the Ulen name as far as the Caribbees. The board artist who used to exchange first and second place with Bob Asron in every meet last year dove several exhibitions in Bermuda with a New York Athletic Club team...