Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send along a contingent of the National Guard." Fortunately no one had to call out the troops last week when Assistant Postmaster General Richard Murphy formally issued the stamp-bearing a rugged, brooding likeness of Thoreau by Artist Leonard Baskin-before a well-behaved crowd of 400 in Concord...
Despite his acknowledged indebtedness to Western artists, Ikeda's work also reflects Japanese life and artistic traditions. While supporting himself by doing portraits of bar patrons along Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans...
Kelly agrees. "Paintings," he says, "have been expanding lately because we need to see things more clearly. An artist wants to say something that can compete with everything else that's being done. There are big images everywhere around us-bigger jets, bigger bridges, and factories-our whole new way of living." To Al Held, who worked on Greek Garden for two years, bigness "gives me the scale that I'm looking for, the presence that I want. I'm not trying to make an equation that size equals quality, but to me bigness just means...
...level. Sometimes Labyrinth uses the two screens to show off: a girl on the far screen throws a bit of bread away; it lands with a splash on the shimmering pond of the bottom screen. Most often it is employed to generate vertigo, as when a trapeze artist dangles above a crowd, or when two men have a highball-to-highball confrontation with a swiveling stripper...
Leonard Shure, the reknown pianist, will appear as the first artist in the Harvard Summer School Monday Night Concert Series, July 10 at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...