Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when abstract expressionism was a skinny creature starving in cold-water flats, a New York gallery invited three promising American artists to fill out a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque. Elated at the opportunity, the woman member of the trio set out curiously to track down the other two. The first was Willem de Kooning, the second an artist with an unfamiliar name who lived just a block away from her Greenwich Village studio. "I lunged right over," she remembers, "and when I saw his paintings I almost died. They bowled me over. Then I met him, and that...
...famed clutter of Picasso's studio is by now fairly familiar, with its menagerie of goats, dogs, pigeons, chickens. What Duncan's photo-reporting does is catch the warmth, richness, foolishness and occasional moodiness of the most protean, joyous, impish and intense artist of the century. The most interesting shots are of Picasso hamming it up. Duncan caught him greeting a fine day by dancing on the balcony in a petticoat and an African helmet, wearing an apelike mask, trying a ballet pas de deux with Jacqueline...
...three months' stay with Picasso, Duncan borrows one of the artist's most exultant shouts, says wholeheartedly: "Es una cosa muy rara! [It's something very rare...
Simplicity Plus Richness. Renewed interest in Art Nouveau has also caught up the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, well-to-do son of the founder of Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., who started out as an artist, switched, along with Artist John La Farge, to experiments with hand-blown glass, and became the most fashionable decorator of his day. Tiffany held that "simplicity is the foundation of all really effective decoration" and he proved that simplicity need not rule out richness and beauty...
...Naziism, art and life are synonymous, and both require only love. "Without love," his students heard, "an art is not art, and a life is not life." Chagall ranged wide over his broad subject. Samples: ¶On judgment of art: "It is better for the public to judge the artist according to his work, because the artist himself doesn't know himself. The mirror of the artist is his work...