Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a mere germ in this yeasty civilization of ours, a tribute to Professor Toynbee, TIME, and Artist Artzybasheff...
Mercurial President Soekarno was too preoccupied to comment. He was busy discussing his favorite hobby-painting-with a visiting artist. But elsewhere in Java last week Indonesians were delirious with joy. After 19 long months of bloody warfare, at least a measure of peace and independence had come to Indonesia...
...oils and 18 watercolors in last week's show, most looked hesitant and patchy, and a few were seriously out of whack. Cézanne never learned to draw as fluently as the average commercial artist, and like most perfectionists he was stammeringly conscious of his failure to paint perfectly. If he had not inherited a comfortable income from his banker father, and been blessed with a stoically believing wife and a businesslike son to manage his affairs, the "Hermit of Aix" might never have created such powerful...
...Norfolk Broads, the better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
...pictures had the sort of eye-widening freshness which modern artists are apt to try for and miss (as these same kids would, a few years later). Three Men under Williamsburg Bridge, by ten-year-old Walter Kmeta, looked like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City...