Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mannerist mystery of depth, stage lighting and evanescent flesh tones, had been attributed to a copyist. Titian's Toilet was supposedly by his son Orazio, although the supple shoulder line and illusory intermingling of the young woman's ripply tresses with her fluid sleeve reveals the artist's lustrous trademark...
...feel so sorry for this younger generation," says its author. "They've got this silly guilt. They've been told that they're not contributing to the world if they relax into their normal ocean of domesticity. If you're not a great artist or writer, you shouldn't be made to feel guilty by having to be somebody besides a housewife. These girls are in school, and they're the queens of the world. Then they get married, and they have problems, and they say it's not fair. Self-pity...
Nuclear Ruin. "I am afraid," he wrote to the President, "I accepted somewhat rapidly and greedily. I thought of such an occasion as a purely artistic flourish, even though every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments...
Giinter Grass, Litt. D. German novelist, playwright, poet, sculptor, graphic artist, drummer and chef. You have persistently and uncompromisingly sought to probe beneath the perplexing surface of German life...
...letter to President Johnson, Lowell explained that he originally accepted the invitation to the arts festival "some-what rapidly and greedily." But every artist knows, he said, "that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public commitments...