Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARROLL CLOAR, a Southern painter who never studied painting, aptly describes the budding spirit of the young artist: "At first it was only cowboys, then it was baseball and football players. Finally I drew a cowgirl...
...think they've flipped their lids," said a bystander. The reaction from the train was stronger. "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine. "It's certainly not Southampton," sniffed another. What was happening was a Happening-a combination of artists' ball, carnival, charade, and a Dadaesque version of the games some people play. The Neutron Kid, glowering through his full beard and dark glasses, was none other than Allan Kaprow, 38, the artist who seven years ago gave Happenings their name...
...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
...artist much favored by Buffalo Bill was New Yorker Charles Schreyvogel, who reached manhood in the 1880s only to find that the West had already been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore...
...artists who went west, none returned with so important and thorough a document as George Catlin. The first artist to make the hazardous trip all the way up the Missouri River, Catlin lived among the Indians for eight years, brought back 510 paintings of the doomed "knights of the forest." His aim, he said, was to so record "their looks and their modes" that they "might live again upon canvas, and stand forth for centuries yet to come, the living monuments of a noble race." And so they do, ironically, in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody...