Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never safe to leave one-armed Jose Clemente Orozco long in the presence of large undecorated wall spaces. Artist Orozco, whose jutting jaw and glittering glasses make him look not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog, is, like his friend and compatriot Diego Rivera, one of the most important mural painters in the Americas, an avid reviver of the art of true fresco. Few months ago he lectured before Dartmouth College's Department of Art. Dartmouth's chief pride is a new Georgian library, gift of the late George Fisher Baker. It has nice new walls that made Muralist Orozco...
Dartmouth's trustees inspected it, found it pleasanter than they had feared. Last week came an announcement. Artist Orozco has been given the walls of the Reserve Book Room on which to execute the largest fresco project yet undertaken in the U. S.-two main panels and eight small ones comprising more than 3.000 sq. feet...
...subject for this great plaster painting, Artist Orozco chose the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec feathered snake-god, patron of arts. Officials of Dartmouth found this suitable. The college was founded by Missionary Eleazar Wheelock to convert the Indians...
Author Bennett's life was a literal translation of his literary creed: "An artist works only to satisfy himself, and for the applause and appreciation neither of his fellows alive nor his fellows yet unborn. I would not care a bilberry for posterity. I should be my own justest judge, from whom there was no appeal; and having satisfied him ... I should be content-as an artist. As a man, I should be disgusted if I could not earn plenty of money and the praise of the discriminating." To earn a Man's share of cash, Author Bennett...
...more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea for The Old Wives' Tale from that old woman. Reward for all his labors he sought and found in cash returns (reckoned up each year); reviews of his books (measured by inches); and the society of interesting people. After a party in London he writes...