Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stained-glass artist, I applaud the bravery of TIME'S writers who in the article "Stained Glass, Back and Booming" [March 13] tiptoed through the broken glass of standardized, commercialized designs to recognize several of the handful of American artists who survived the lean years and are preserving the integrity of stained-glass...
...time in a framework of cosmic mythology: the friend of Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, the burning allegorist of revolution in France and America, the poet of liberty. But no exhibition in living memory has offered quite so much access to him as this one. We see the artist, warts and all: the epiphanies but the fustian too. It is an invigorating show and, obviously, a taxing one as well. Blake never strove to please, and much of his output was propelled by a need whose expression was, to put it mildly, obscure...
...best of Stella's Exotic Bird paintings come closer to it than anything he, or any other artist of his generation, has done...
...himself he wishes to preserve for his intimates. The public Travolta, personable and shy, canny and eager, is like a picture in a child's coloring book, where only the bold, broad outlines of a figure are provided. The drawing will take any colors you want. Only the original artist holds the full, definitive master sketch, which he shares sparingly...
Those men were not martyrs. Alan Freed "co-wrote" a lot of Chuck Berry's first hits, in other words he got a cut of the artist's royalties for playing the record. Worse still, he was ultimately indicted and convicted for receiving payola, gifts from the record companies for playing their tunes...