Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like just another of Pop Artist Andy Warhol's home movies. Still, Andy's home is unlike anybody else's, and so are his films. This one follows a cat named Tom (Tom Baker) as he prowls bedrooms and hallways in search of birds. There are six in all, including Ingrid Superstar-real name: Ingrid von Schoffen-as a chubby blonde who refers to her overexposed mammaries as "fried eggs," and a brassy type in a pea jacket who turns Tom down because she herself prefers to make it with chicks. Some of the improvised dialogue...
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians...
...been 500 years since an anonymous German artist finished off an exquisite engraving of the Madonna enthroned with eight angels, then added the date 1467 and the inscrutable initials E.S. To this day, nobody knows his identity. Some scholars believe he was Egidius Steclin, a 15th century goldsmith who worked in the Duke of Burgundy's court. Others insist that he was Erwin von Stege, onetime mintmaster to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. Or, as one archivist suggests, was he really Endres Silbernagel, an obscure Freiburg painter who died of the plague...
...prints, providing critics of all persuasions with a rare opportunity to sleuth for themselves. To be sure, the work itself is the liveliest source of clues. Besides the initials, it is full of crests and coats of arms then popular in what is now southern Germany, where the artist probably lived...
...painter, though a good artist, was a bad man who demanded bribes from the girls and painted only those who had a yen for him. When the most beautiful candidate of them all (Lin Dai) refused to pay him, he painted an ugly picture of her, and it was three years before the Emperor accidentally ran across...