Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundation emphasizes, the grant will cover only about 10% of projected orchestral costs during the next decade. "We hope," said a foundation spokesman, "that the very discrepancy between the size of the grant and the enormity of the need will awaken more people to the plight of the artist in our society...
Prudently, the artist waited until the royal proclamation of U.S. independence. Returning from the House of Lords where on Dec. 5, 1782 King George III recognized the freedom of his former colonies, Copley invited Watson to his studio. "There," recalled Watson, "with a bold hand, a master's touch, and I believe an American heart, he attached to the ship the stars and stripes. This was, I imagine, the first American flag hoisted in old England...
Noah-like, Stanley Kramer has packed a cross section of humanity aboard his microcosmic Ship of Fools. There's a washed-up baseball player, a Nazi, a German Jew, a countess, two emancipated American women, an artist, 600 starving Spaniards, and a dwarf...
...Impressionist Edouard Manet and the post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Manet's 1866 portrait of a pipe-puffing man, The Smoker, brought $450,000. Gauguin's 1893 scene of a moon-goddess idol, Hma Marum, fetched $275,000 The highest price knocked down by a living artist was $78,000, for a 1949 marriage fantasy by Marc Chagall (TIME cover, July...
...Czarist cavalry general, and his mother fled the Russian Revolution only to leave him an orphan in Poland when he was eight Family friends sent him through Jesuit schools m Belgium, where he began to study art. After wartime service with the Foreign Legion in Tunisia, the demobilized artist returned to Paris with a mistress, Jeannine Guilloux. Often he painted her skeletal beauty. "I wondered what it was I had painted," he mused, a living dead creature or a dead living creature...