Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karl Stefan, of the House Appropriations Committee, wrestled with an esthetic problem. The State Department wanted money to strengthen U.S. cultural contacts with Europe and Latin America. "The committee never intended to have anything like that done with the taxpayer's money," said Stefan, looking with horror at Artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bit of exaggerated expressionism...
...learning to draw? Yet drawing is as difficult and takes as long a training, and without it the painter is only the kind of practitioner that the doctor is who has but a fake degree. . . . Having learnt to draw, and then the relatively easier discipline of painting, let the artist express himself-if he can afford to wait so long...
Reckless Laughter. The men responsible for these two new books on Joyce do not share Connolly's disappointment. In the introduction to his portable Joyce (containing selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as well as Joyce's short stories, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern...
...Oxnam, Methodist Bishop of New York, was moved to write: "To me, this is journalism at a high level. It is the finest statement of the case against racial discrimination that I have read, in addition to being a splendid revelation of the heart and mind of a distinguished artist...
...exhibition was in Manhattan but the artist was in Hollywood, and wishing he were somewhere else. In the voluntary torments of Hollywood, Odets had found escape in painting-but his words about it packed more professional wallop than his pictures...