Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I took the late N. C. Wyeth into the scrub country to begin his paintings for a special edition of The Yearling, he gasped at the "composed landscapes" of the "piercing green palm fronds" and said: "This is fantastic. An artist has only to copy this, and then it will not be believed." Incidentally, the most effective "shots" in the film were exact reproductions of his paintings. And often, particularly at twilight, I look at the "dusty good earth" and it is definitely lavender, or mauve, sometimes actually purple...
...winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must be my friends...
When U.S. music gets played, said Douglas Moore, it is usually "as a gesture thought to involve sacrifice on the part of the artist, the manager and the audience." His conclusion: "If a slogan of 'It's not necessarily bad because it is American' were to be adopted, there might be some improvement...
...nearest (though not very near) thing to a fine artist in the medium of U.S. radio is Norman Corwin. Few dramatists reach so wide an audience-a fact that last February helped him win the first Wendell Willkie One World Award: a round-the-world trip designed to dramatize, as did Willkie's, the adjacence of everywhere...
...Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no ism." When a reporter cornered the old, thin man at the opening of his Boston show to ask who were his favorite painters, wry, shy John Marin had his answer ready: "Myself...