Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more politely, theatrical attire. George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller are done in "recessive" blue; that is not a political assessment, but only Conrad's way of pushing them back in the perspective of the picture. And the red and white stripes on Percy? Replies the artist, who may possibly have more political savvy than he realizes: "This just brings...
...good. I didn't learn it until I was nine." Waner alienated Chicago's militant civil rights groups by opposing open housing, then blundered into a vow to fire Chicago's able Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, whom he labeled a "$30,000-a-year con artist...
...have even reached the stage where, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week opened an immense Pollock retrospective, some critics decided that it was high time to begin to debunk the "myth" of his achievement. Sniffed the New York Times's Hilton Kramer: "An interesting artist of, say, the third class. It is only the poverty of our own artistic values that has elevated his accomplishment into something higher...
...turned his back on the turpentine turmoil, joined the British Navy and rose to become First Sea Lord; or to go Dad one better, as did Nicolette's sister Caitlin, who married Dylan Thomas and enthusiastically embraced his pub-and-pad life style. Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good luck or good sense to pick a nonflamboyant type with solid talent who achieved a modest success as a portrait painter, with...
...close your eyes and everything looks like a Rothko painting," said one Sophomore ivy-head. The American artist Mark Rothko characteristically paints large floating blocks of deep colors...