Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Padded Room. The letters show that Dylan could never honestly attribute his behavior to an artist's usual frustrations. He never suffered from a lack of recognition. When he was only 19, such poetic nabobs as T. S. Eliot and Stephen Spender were impressed by his published work, offering aid and encouragement. His chronic fault was that he was a wastrel-and not only in his constant pursuit of a new bed or bottle. He was recklessly profligate in everything. Some of these letters about relatively unimportant matters contain some of his best prose. Thus, in a lyrical homesick...
...Shahn, D.A., painter. Pathos, protest, wit and wisdom shape this lively artist's telling work...
...Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call this type of work a "multi-original," because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque. Lichine...
...Manhattan, Tiffany Color Inc. is experimenting with producing oil paintings from color photographs on canvases that are printed with marks imitating the artist's brush strokes. In Bavaria, West Germany, a reclusive engraver named Günther Dietz, 48, has developed a variant on the silk-screen method that has already produced copies of Rembrandt, Dufy, Chagall, Degas, Cezanne and Marini that are almost indistinguishable from the originals...
...Sheets to Fidelity. Dietz's system, perfected over the past 15 years (and patented in 1963), requires the preparation of a canvas, wood panel or paper virtually identical with the one the artist used. He analyzes the order in which the artist applied his original colors, then programs them and transposes them onto as many as 70 different transparent plastic sheets, each of which has the exact, three-dimensional surface of the original painting. The prepared canvas is then printed with all 70 sheets. At present, Dietz works with only two manual presses, dealing principally with wholesalers, and charges...