Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest draw for many musicians, however, is the sheer joy of being able to reach a global audience directly. As Rennie puts it, "The Net has returned a measure of control to the artist." Jeff Patterson, co-founder of IUMA, began by digitizing the music of his own band, Ugly Mugs, and posting it on Usenet newsgroups. "If it wasn't for the positive feedback we got, I think we would have stopped right there," he says. "I think a lot of it was that people realized they could distribute their work without going through the record distributors...
...have brought such tragedy on themselves. Both from affluent families, they lived in prosperous New Jersey suburbs and so would not have faced a desperate economic predicament if they had a child. Their material well-being aside, they were also apparently happy, successful, likable kids. Amy was a talented artist and worked at a ymca camp last summer--"a dream daughter," her lawyer said. Brian was co-captain of the high school soccer team and on the varsity golf team. "He was popular--he had a lot of friends," says Brian Thalmann, who went to Ramapo High School with...
...first volume of John Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, published in 1991, took the artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...
...Indeed, Picasso's ramshackle tenement had no gas or electricity and only one water tap and a rudimentary toilet. But the studio was an often riotous gathering place for "la bande a Picasso," a self-dubbed group of poets--including Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob--attracted to the Spanish artist's creative orbit. Picasso showed these friends his paintings. One--a large work that absorbed him for six months--elicited only embarrassed silence...
Cubism could not contain Picasso's restless energies for more than a handful of years, and the latter part of Richardson's second volume shows the artist moving toward a mining of classical images for his own work, trying, as always, "to cannibalize the art of the past and remake it in his own image...