Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working from scale drawings and with the aid of the scaffolder, the artist finished his masterwork in just 2½ days. The result: a 50-ft. by 60-ft. bucolic semiabstract that shows 36-ft.-high green grass growing, a blue sky, a white cloud and a red and yellow towerlike structure. There is also an arrow pointing topside-in case anyone needs to know which...
...Reality. To be sure, Salmon is esteemed by 20th century Brahmins for slightly different reasons from those which made him Boston's most fashionable marine painter of his day. Having plied his trade for 30 years as a relatively unknown maritime artist in Liverpool and Scotland, Salmon emigrated to Boston in 1828 at the age of 53. He found it the center of youthful America's bustling maritime commerce. Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children...
...canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone with an eye could see that he had the talent of an artist...
...generations progressed, painted hives became a status symbol; prosperous owners hired itinerant painters to decorate each hive with as many as 60 panels. Styles be came baroque, subjects sly and secular, with folk tales and local gossip pre dominant. One panel, dated 1890, may have been done by an artist who knew his subject all too well. It shows a red-shirted farmer, holding a beehive, as he falls from a ladder that has been charged by a bull. One can almost hear the angry buzz...
...time when so many novelists are merely tinkering with far-out techniques or grinding out hunks of undigested raw material, Nabokov is an artist who fastidiously constructs intricate plots and dazzling verbal mosaics. He creates books without precedent in form (Pale Fire) or treatment (Lolita). He can also be a clever ice skater, stylishly tracing or following someone else's figures-the Conradian Laughter in the Dark, for example, or the Kafkaesque Invitation to a Beheading...