Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecstatic Heinz man cheered them on, the students proudly deposited the bottle on the gallery steps. Alas, gallery officials were not amused. Sniffed Curator Brydon Smith: "The Hamburger is a serious work of art, done by an important New York artist. This other thing is a happening." Added Director William Withrow: "The Hamburger makes an extremely important statement about our society." Back to Central Technical High went the bottle (now peeling slightly). Still, the ketchup incident has happily helped to ease the city's solemn view of "art." Dozens of Torontonians visiting the gallery now ask with relish: "Where...
...this being the case, the problem was impossible of solution and ought to have been declined by an artist who is these days the chief spokesman for monumentality. Three years of brooding brought forth only a far worse alternative than the obvious ones, an unmatched pair, too much like each other to be thought of apart, yet too wildly dissimilar to form a simple design...
...space with decorative plants and boughs. To capture the clipper ship's surge through the mountainous seas, another anonymous painter resorted to ritualistic formality, reminiscent of a Japanese print. Ironically, what spelled the death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost his own fresh vision. He Returns No More, for instance, is high-camp poster art, probably derived from a contemporary print by Paul Schnitzler...
...Artist Marc Chagall believes in "God, Mozart and color." The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing believes in Mozart, Chagall and boxoffice. Thus, when the Met scheduled a new production of The Magic Flute, it seemed only right that the 79-year-old Chagall should design the sets and costumes. No matter that he had never before tried his hand at opera; The Magic Flute is fantasy, and in that misty, mystical medium Chagall is the original beautiful dreamer. "He is so very right for it," said Bing...
...journalistic photography and television, the camera has developed a new vocabulary of images. Spain's Juan Genovès, 37, calls it "graphic language, the language of the photographer." In his show at London's Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, he illustrates the chilling resources open to the artist who has learned to parse it for his own artistic ends...