Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makeup artist arrived at Sandringham to advise Elizabeth on such problems as foundation creams, face powder and eye shadow. Homey touches abounded: a shelf behind Elizabeth's chair bristled with Christmas cards; a large photo of nine-year-old Prince Charles and seven-year-old Princess Anne stood at the Queen's elbow. Wearing a brocaded afternoon dress, the Queen was positioned at her oak desk, sitting sideways from it so that she faced directly into the camera and into the eyes of an estimated 50 million viewers in Great Britain and on the Continent...
Elder of the two is Fausto Pirandello, 58, son of Italy's late, famed Dramatist Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello, and one of Italy's most decorated and honored artists (first prize at the Sixth Quadriennale, Taranto Prize in 1949, Fiorino Prize in 1953 and 1956, Gold Medal from the President of the Republic last year). For his first one-man show in seven years. Pirandello lined the walls of Milan's new Galleria Blu with 20 paintings which showed that as an artist he is haunted by the great styles that make...
Afro's memories go back to his childhood at Udine, near Venice, where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...
...surroundings (the grey-green of Serene Stone comes from Florentine tombstone; the red and blue of First Day from the 18th century walls of his last summer's studio). For him every painting is an attempt "to come into contact with the mystery"; success depends on the artist's power. Says Afro: "If you have authority to say it, and urgency, you are no longer decorative but creative...
...Here is eternal fame!" exclaimed 16th century Artist and Chronicler Giorgio Vasari of Simone Martini, the Sienese painter who lived 200 years before Vasari's time. What provoked Vasari's admiration and envy in this case was not Martini's painting, which Vasari noted was "rapidly perishing," but the fact that Petrarch had mentioned Martini in two sonnets. Last week history reversed Vasari's order of precedence. Few but antiquarians care whether Martini was mentioned by Petrarch or not, but the discovery of a hitherto unknown Martini Madonna and Child (see cut] is the talk...