Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basically, we're very shy people," said Japanese Artist Yoko Ono after she and John Lennon stirred a furor by posing for the nude photos on the cover of a Beatle-produced album, The Two Virgins. Now the shy couple have announced they are expecting a baby in the spring. Said John, who is being sued for divorce by wife Cynthia: "Babies make the world happier and that's our scene...
What can an artist do with a dot? A lot -if he is Larry Poons. His works are gigantic fields of solid color, spangled with hard-edged dots; when gazed at for any length of time, they seem to dance out and surround the viewer. They have served Poons very well indeed. His canvases have been snapped up, and his six one-man shows have all been sellouts, although his prices range up to $6,000. Still only 31, Poons has become a prodigy of the Manhattan art world, but he clearly has no intention of resting on his reputation...
...emotional phase? Poons imperturbably prefers to let his paintings speak for themselves, saying only, "It's curiosity that motivates me." Nonetheless, Night Journey, one of his most radical paintings, says something more. The title is taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. To Koestler, the artist exists on a trivial plane of daily existence, but he must descend to a harrowing private Hades if he is to find fresh inspiration. Koestler quotes Sir Thomas Browne that "man is 'that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures...
...artist must work towards that which he does not know...
...Bellow has published a greater number of intelligent, relevant and stylistically superior novels than any other U.S. writer. The only other American novelist who could challenge that record is Vladimir Nabokov, who is a Russian aristocrat by birth and an expatriate U.S. citizen by choice. He is the greater artist, but he lives in an entirely different world of the imagination. Nabokov is committed to the American experience mainly insofar as it defines his own exquisitely tuned esthetic intelligence...