Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost painters in Europe and the United States and it much appreciated in Japan. Beginning the study of art in Munich in 1902, he treated Russian folk-lore and regends in a personal and romantic style still venturing into pure non-objective April in 1909. He was the first artist whose work consisted of pure form and had no subject content...
Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...
...desire to enjoy the blessings of a perfect love was exceeded only by the keenest ambition to become recognized as a great artist. All through her brief career she held these goals before her, willing to sacrifice everything to acquire them. Yet she died at the age of twenty-four, having gone only a short way on her ambitious and difficult journey. Gladstone read her diary and recognized her as "a true genius, one of these abnormal beings who seem to be born into the world once or twice in a generation...
Maric's pathetic love affair with the dying Bastien-Lepage, another poor and struggling artist, is described with all the warmth and tenderness the author possesses. These last tragic scenes, when the ready realizes Bashkirtseff herself is doomed, stand out in striking contrast to the earlier, more lively moments of her childhood. Not only does the author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere...
...Museum, the Musee de Luxembourg, and the Nice Museum. For one who has not read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value of the original...