Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible that the citizens of San Francisco do not need their consciousness raised about the perils of venereal disease, but just in case, a Marin County artist named Grant Monday last week unveiled in Union Square a 4-ft. by 3-ft. ice sculpture that was supposed to portray a gonorrhea germ 700,000 times larger than life. By midweek, happily, the sculpture had been transformed into a puddle...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
...Monet applied to a surrealist syntax, may be the least inept of these. If anything, they showed how far Magritte's real gifts lay from the orthodox processes of modernism. Nor did his first essays in the surrealist manner, done in 1925-26, indicate much about the artist to come; they are, for the most part, grab bags of motifs from other painters, chiefly Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico...
Feature Film Casting--Danielle Alexandra in association with the "Side By Side" Council for the Performing Arts, announces casting for United Artist's "A Small Circle of Friends" scheduled for filming in March and April. Casting of Harvard students in Lowell House JCR Monday March 5 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for professional bit and extra roles...
Thursday, March 1--Concert: Frank Weber, RCA recording artist, Levin Ballroom at 9 p.m. Tickets...