Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Setting out to paint quaint, cozy, often whimsical realism hardly seems the way to win the avantgarde. Yet such is precisely the goal of a Tennessee-born artist named Charles Grooms. "I'm really oldfashioned, basically," he says, and his pursuit of everyday images has already earned him, at the age of 27, a reputation as the new Grand Pop Moses...
Responding to Perkins, Dancer Jose Limón, who teaches at New York's Juilliard School of Music, pointed out that in the end "the scholar and the artist are working toward the same goal. The scholastic method, objective, dispassionate, and the artist's egocentricity are diverse roads leading to one end: civilized...
...Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...
...younger major U.S. museum directors, and a man who, in a young city that thrives on cultural imbroglios, thrives on his wit and wisdom. A jocular scholar who is apt to bump into trustees with a chocolate ice cream cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years as a research scholar at Manhattan's Frick Collection. There, he recalls, "I could feel myself growing...
...riotous opening night of The Plough and the Stars, the historic disturbance inside the Abbey Theatre somehow seems less crucial than the playwright's muscular performance in the outer lobby, where Taylor enthusiastically flattens a couple of idlers, rounding out Cassidy's unfinished portrait of the artist as a young tough...