Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographers were rare. Today, they range the earth in peace and war, catching the human face in joy and pain, laying out the world before eager eyes. Sometimes they work alone amid squalor and risk; sometimes they haunt the watering holes of wealth. Wherever they are, some 300 artist-hustlers are likely to swap fond recollections of the quiet little man who launched them: Clarence A. (for Abel) Bach, 65, founder of the first U.S. high school photo-journalism course. Last week, after 34 brilliant years at Los Angeles' John C. Fremont High School, Clarence Bach retired...
Mario Prassinos' large (79 in. by 99 in.) Winter and Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
...antique dealer and longtime advocate of mutual funds, I wondered whose good taste was responsible for using what looks like an old Staffordshire sugar bowl on June 1 cover. If it belongs to Artist Artzybasheff, I'd like...
...piece tea set given to the late Mrs. Artzy-basheff's great-grandmother as a wedding gift. The set survived three ownerships and remained intact until the Artzybasheffs moved from New York City to Connecticut when one cup was broken. If Dealer Hartman has a matching cup, Artist Artzybasheff would like...
...unconsciously revealed part of his hand by suddenly launching into a diatribe against Erhard. Said Adenauer: "Herr Erhard . . . does not have sufficient experience in foreign policy matters. If you give a man a few brushes, a pot of paint and an easel, this does not make him an artist...