Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satanism & Embroidery. The largest Beardsley exhibit ever shown opened last week in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. And though the artist's work seemed to critics of his time as saccharinely pornographic as orgies sculpted in marzipan, the exhibition recalls his widespread influence. Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch based some of his violent images directly on Beardsley drawings. The ballet impresario Daighilev had sets designed from Beardsley. Kandinsky and even Picasso were admirers. Beardsley's sense of abstract design even relates to the hard-edge abstraction practiced today...
...been art director of The Yellow Book, a weary, queery literary quarterly; and when Oscar Wilde made scandalous trial headlines for his homosexual liaison, Beardsley, though not involved, was sacked out of hand. But when James McNeill Whistler at last told Beardsley that he was indeed a great artist, Beardsley cried. Then again, he was only 23 at the time...
...Reston was, in the best sense, a scoop artist - a specialist at getting information other reporters hadn't. (For a time in the early '50s, he averaged two scoops a week.) And he was also an idealist - who in 1942 had written Prelude to Victory, which he called "not a book so much as an outburst of bad temper ... against anything and anybody who is concentrating but winning this...
Phillips had a special feeling for the artists of his own time, early bought John Marin, financed U.S. Abstractionist Arthur Dove with a monthly check from the 1930s to the artist's death in 1946. In later years, Phillips' taste moved on to such U.S. moderns as Pollock, Motherwell and Rothko, bought each for his own merits. "There are no schools or movements worth a moment's attention," Phillips maintained. "There are only true artists and pretenders...
...more than made up for in wealth: his fortune, based on Canadian uranium, has grown to upwards of $100 million. Nor is there any gainsaying his voracious appetite for art. "I buy art almost every day," he says. "If I can't decide which of an artist's work, I buy them...