Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks-Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story...
Strictly Ordered. Mary Cassatt's father, a Pittsburgh banker, had said that he would almost rather see her dead than become an artist. But she proved to have an equally strong will. During the Civil War she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, then, at the age of 23, traveled to Paris. Degas first opened her eyes. Wrote Cassatt: "I used to go and flatten my nose against the picture dealer's window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life...
Died. John Bradshaw Crandell, 69, cover-girl artist and glamour arbiter of the 1930's and '40s, a onetime Manhattan commercial artist who decided to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of the business, painting pictures of stylish, pink-cheeked "all-American girls who have plenty of sex appeal, but don't show it," which quickly became favorite covers for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Madison, Conn...
...BURY, 43, is a slow-motion artist. "Speed limits space," says the Belgian. "Slowness multiplies it." So Bury builds well-wrought wooden sculptures concealing tiny electric motors that twitch in a random, nearly subliminal manner. At first glance, his sculptures seem static; then by degrees the spectator becomes aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action...
...North, Moana, Man of Aran, Louisiana Story. With the perspective of half a century, the works retain their stature, and the figure of Flaherty is magnified in time. In The Innocent Eye, Biographer Arthur Calder-Marshall depicts Flaherty as an extravagant example of an extravagant type: the artist-adventurer. A great shaggy polar bear of a man with ice-blue eyes and a smile that blazed like a swallowed sun, he created a life as splendid...