Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painters have found, in technology, a new medium for exploring nature. Fusing "life in the car", as one critic put it, with a nostalgic appreciation of the natural landscape, the painting and graphics of Daniel Lang break down the barrier between technology and nature in a new way. The artist portrays the experience of seeing nature through the window of a moving car. He uses the car to enhance his experience of the landscape and we feel at rest with his effort to bring technology into harmony with nature...
Somebody or other recently commented that "an artist is most isolated yet most exposed in a drawing, since nothing else comes so purely from within him or shows him to us more intimately." Lang's drawings are definitely his forte. They present his refreshing sense of harmony in its purest form. He handles the medium with such case that questions of mastery become irrelevant and he leaves us free to lose ourselves in his lyrical themes...
TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Attorney O'Brien (Peter Falk) defends a heist artist who is accused of killing a violin dealer...
...solidity of American realism are the extravagant fancies of Britain's "Grand Manner"-sharply outlined bulks interrupted by thin, evanescent cuffs, ruffles and fluttery papers. The painting underlines the irony of Copley's dilemma. As is documented by a current show * on the 150th anniversary of the artist's death, he was the first great American painter, but his very quest for art destroyed that vision...
Married. Madalyn Murray, 46, Baltimore's professional atheist; and Richard Franklin O'Hair, 52, expatriate artist living in Mexico; both for the second time; in Austin, Texas...