Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover Artist Koch did not capture the Julie Andrews I know and love. Painting her without that beautiful, radiant, happy smile is like doing Durante without a nose or a Kennedy without hair...
...possible to paint the portrait of an entire generation?" Artist Robert Vickrey provides his own answer in his study of the four young people on the cover. None is a real person, but when one editor saw the finished picture, he remarked that the handsome youth in the foreground suggested a portrait of the artist as a young man. "Something of that might have slipped in," Vickrey allowed. As for our word portrait, it includes more faces, more facets, and greater complexities. It includes, we hope, the varied spirit of a generation that is anything but faceless. And we also...
...Folk Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, 24, passionately pleading the cause of her fellow Indians when she is not recording top-selling LPs. It is Artist Jamie Wyeth, 20, improving on his father's style while putting in some 200 hours on a portrait of John F. Kennedy; Violinist James Oliver Buswell, 20, carrying a full Harvard freshman load and a 44-city concert tour simultaneously; Actress Julie Christie, 25, shedding miniskirt for bonnet and shawl while filming Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and denouncing "kooky clothing" in the women's magazines. It is Sanford Greenberg...
...seven years in New York with only a single private gallery show there. It was panned by daily newspapers and art magazines alike as tasteless. Now a public museum, the Milwaukee Art Center, has taken a gamble and is showing 24 of his oils. He could just be the artist that the Milwaukee made famous...
...Lady of New York was a gesture to the big city. "Every little village in Colombia has an Our Lady," he says with a twinkle. Into his bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait. Then why another self-portrait at the age of 18 months? "Every artist tells how he started painting in the cradle," he says. Actually he began at 15; his first exhibition in Colombia was so derivative of Van Gogh, Gauguin and others that people thought it was a group show. And it sold...