Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry...
Still, there is a certain substance behind this elusive shadow play. Osborne has drawn a portrait of the artist in a middle-aged funk, a prey to the 5 a.m. hoo-ha's, chronically in pain, unappeasably romantic, listening in self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line...
...once suspected. The recognition comes, in part, as a result of a series of recent retrospectives in Zurich, Tokyo, London, New York, and now Los Angeles, which have brought out into the open many of his little-known works. They reveal Miró to be a remarkably diversified artist (see color pages). In the light of his full range, he stands forth today as astonishingly youthful, relevant and contemporary...
...less eccentric than his home. Wheezing and bent with age, he is nonetheless chipper and determined as a bright sparrow. A practicing architect since 1906, he has some 50 lavish country residences to his credit, including his own beleaguered castle. Lately he has returned to his second vocation of artist (he exhibited in the great 1913 Armory Show in New York). Although the fire in 1963 forced him to move to a rented apartment, the house remains his studio, without running water or electricity...
...force that drives them, the force of eloquence, of excitement, of head-busting grandeur. For an instant (it should not be for more than an instant for that is the way to Demagoguery) the literal truth of a statement is submerged in its origiastic flow of energy. An artist cannot be called irresponsible if he is galloping and pretty...