Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY WITH HARRY REASONER (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). "The Wyeth Phenomenon" explores the vast popularity among U.S. gallerygoers of Artist Andrew Wyeth...
...case you weren't exactly sure, I the way they are arranged on the cover, left to right, is George, Ringo, Paul and John. This view of the Beatles is the work of Gerald Scarfe, 31, the British artist-cartoonist-satirist whose grotesque caricatures in the British press (TIME, July 15, 1966) have been the nemesis of the high, mighty and famous, from Lyndon Johnson to Queen Elizabeth. For TIME, Scarfe went beyond his usual two-dimensional pen and chose special weapons: papier-mâché, paste, wire, sticks and watercolors...
...Will Rogers slogan, "Buy land, they're not makin' it any more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth of art works, often in hope that the purchase will increase in value as the artist becomes better known. Amateurs can also dabble in oil-well exploration, beef cattle, race horses, Broadway plays, foreign exchange, gold and silver and precious gems on the chance that Oliver Wendell Holmes's probable will occur...
...overwhelming impression conveyed by the great baroque masters of the 17th century, from Caravaggio to Rubens, is their delight in optical illusions, soaring space, voluptuous forms and twisting asymmetrical line. Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, a long-forgotten 17th century artist who achieved his first one-man show in 300 years in West Germany this fall, shared his century's delight in asymmetry and illusion, but drew the line when it came to voluptuousness. In the 89 canvases and 107 graphics assembled at Ulm's prestigious city museum, Schönfeld displays himself as a moody, broody...
...often the artist's escape. Such was the case of Charlotte Bronte, the most prolific of the Brontë sisters, who flowered briefly in England during the 1840s with strange, powerful novels and poetry. Charlotte was shy and ugly, proud and ambitious. Her three novels, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, are all switches on the old Cinderella theme: the rejected girl is not only poor but plain; her Byronic hero must see not only through the rags but also through the flesh itself to her spiritual beauty...