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Word: artistes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that make him so controversial. One perceptive critic recently returned from looking at the frescoes has joined Orozco's most fervent disciples. In his new book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well as warm. Sample opinions: ¶The late Painter Diego Rivera: "Orozco was the only great artist of the counterrevolution ... He felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Winds of Fame | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...collection of delightful minor characters slip in and out of the story as they are neded. There is an ambitious youngster, "Nosey," who "wants to be an artist," and a bitter but affectionate Irish barmaid. To this latter Jimson tries to explain his art: "Look at that figure, Cokey. Feel it with your eyes. First see the lines, then the colors..." To which she replies, "All I know, Mr. Jimson, is that no self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

...your Dec. 29 cover the artist drew a Morgan-type silver dollar with a 1958 date. The last year the Morgan-type silver dollar was minted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Artist Artzybasheff expects no one to change his dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, long a showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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