Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gathering Notes. Most of the defendants pleaded guilty to visiting the Communist capitals and receiving money, but insisted that they had not spied on their return home. Many, like Artist Eung Ro Lee, said that they had cooperated only to get news of relatives in North Korea. Said Lee: "I just wanted to see one of my sons supposedly residing in North Korea." "I visited Pyongyang," said Composer Yi Sang Yun, "merely to gather material for my music composition...
...seen in many of his paintings and drawings. But his second presence in The Family of Charles IV gives ironical depth to an already profound picture. By stripping away his own mask of detachment and presenting a self as warped by passion as any of his royal subjects, the artist seems to suggest that whatever frailty they symbolize, it is one that he cannot pass judgment upon...
...white America the black artist has worked largely in a vacuum. He has been able to say, with the protagonist of Ellison's celebrated novel, "I am an invisible man...simply because people refuse to see me." But recently he has begun to be seen, really seen. In October, the City University of New York mounted a stunning and well-attended exhibition of 55 Negro artists spanning a century and a half. This month, a Manhattan gallery has offered a one-man show of 49 paintings by the late Henry O. Tanner--who was, however, able to find freedom...
Dana Chandler's exhibit has already stirred up controversial reactions from its viewers. Some have been moved, some have been scandalized. I guarantee that no-one leaving the show, black or white, will emerge the same person he was on entering. And this, of course, is precisely the artist...
Assuredly, Chandler doesn't plan to be another Invisible Man. And on being asked what his longterm ambition is, without an instant's hesitation he shot back the proper answer: "To be the best black artist America has ever seen...