Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some day I will be remembered as Jamie Wyeth's father," says Artist Andrew Wyeth. The boy certainly is his father's son. At 20, he is such a talented painter that already his portraits command up to $8,000, and late this month Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery will have a one-man show of 42 of Jamie's works. The gallery will not have what is bound to be one of the artist's most interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four...
...Eugene Boudin, son of a sailor, the choice was simple: either go to sea or paint it. Boudin opted for the artist's path, and the world has been in his debt ever since. The poet Baudelaire was astounded. From Boudin's paintings, he wrote, it was possible to "guess the season, the hour and the wind." To Camille Corot, he was "the king of the skies." And in the 20th century, Georges Braque, looking back, said flatly: "Boudin invented the seashore...
...when painting mostly runs to stale geometries, pop playthings and optical gimmickry, an artist who tackles the image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
...bloody beef, shrieking popes, and men performing vague erotic gymnastics. In his recent paintings, he has focused on portraiture. In a frenzy since the beginning of the year, he has painted 30, half of which go on view in Paris' Galerie Maeght this week. The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket...
Some now defend the fashion on esthetic grounds. "You have this break between your pants and your shoes," explains a Los Angeles display artist. "Two textures. Why ruin it by sticking a third texture in between?" Others now give the trend Havelock Ellis overtones, agreeing, as one Californian puts it, that "hairs on the ankle look provocative." Some girls agree. "It looks sexy," says Rosalie Netter, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "You can see the bone structure, like finely chiseled stone," says Wisconsin Sophomore Karen Knauf...