Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summed up as authoritative rather than definitive. In an introduction to the sumptuous, scholarly catalog, Pierre Rosenberg, the Louvre's chief curator of paintings, acknowledges that several treasures in London's Wallace Collection were unavailable, as were the four famous panels called The Progress of Love, 1771, which the artist created for Madame du Barry. Fortunately for residents of and visitors to New York, the panels are on permanent display at the Frick Collection, a short walk down Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan...
...cactus. Sometimes they were shown in their entire life cycle: bud, blossom and seedpod on a single stem. Sometimes their root systems were shown beneath the earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey's wild and beautiful Pine Barrens. The idea, he says, is "to submerge myself in nature, so that the more familiar I become with flowers...
...plants and their roots are suspended in space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors of contemporary glass. "He has broken away from the traditional paperweight style, and is now accepted as a very serious artist around the world," says Douglas Heller, director of the Heller Gallery...
...same young woman and the Phantom, who seeks to win her devotion by making her a star. The maiden is thus expected to choose between outward beauty and the beauty of the soul and, in protofeminist fashion, between status as a rich man's wife and acclaim as an artist in her own right. As befits a fantasy, she gets both by virtue of a brief display of compassion...
...designer's favorite colors. (Had it been possible, he says, he would have brought the sun and the sea right inside.) It is easy to work with navy and white, but taming vibrant blues, pinks and tans, not to mention swirling prints, requires the eye of an artist...