Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When there is nothing going for him beyond his own confidence in his genius, the pugnacious young artist always takes on God. That is understandable; if he can convince God of his superiority, the public will be a cinch. When he wrote his challenge to the Deity in 1895, Stephen Crane was only 24, but he had already won his public as the author of the flawless Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal...
...Kwei Armah, 28, is a young Ghanaian novelist whose heart breaks in a jerry-built hell of token down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...
...Artist Jacob Lawrence, who is making his first appearance on a TIME cover, has been the recipient of a long list of honors since his apprentice days at the Harlem Art Workshop in the 1930s. His paintings now hang in many of the world's major museums. His cover painting reflects the observations of eight months' of living and traveling in Nigeria in 1964. Of the war, he says: "After talking to Nigerians from the east and west, we were not surprised when the conflict broke...
Subtle Materials. Vuillard was the greater artist, but it was his schoolboy friendship with Roussel that steered him to painting. When Roussel enrolled with an art teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object...
Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist...