Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Feminist artist Judy Chicago presents The Dinner Party...
...that wonderful magic. Everyone copied his style. People imitated his gestures, dressed like him, wanted to be him (or his woman). He was popular with both men and women. He became the most influential solo popular artist of our time. There is no debate: ELVIS IS THE KING...
...that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people--though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work...
...conceptual irony, has certainly had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso, the Spaniard was the last great beneficiary of the belief that the language of painting and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees. And he was the first artist to enjoy the obsessive attention of mass media. He stood at the intersection of these two worlds. If that had not been so, his restless changes of style, his constant pushing of the envelope, would not have created such controversy--and thus such celebrity...
Leslie says he has produced for a variety ofpeople, including an artist he first heard singingat the Harvard Square T-stop...