Word: artistical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mexican women are a favorite subject with Artist Martinez. He mingles much with them, in and out of his studio. Swarthy, melancholic, now in his 40's, he was longtime director of Mexico's Academy of Fine Arts. Mexico's artistic progressives, led by Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) do not count Artist Martinez in their number...
...model he paints by day and loves by night?the sea. The beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was wife of a hoary old ambassador. Then people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup...
...pity that no report of it hangs in Memorial Hall. But he would never allow a portrait of himself to be drawn. Into his personality strangers must not intrude. Venturing once to try for memoranda of his face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made...
...editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons...
...happy moment for the devotees of the "little theatre movement" when a few days ago Eva LeGallienne, famed director of the New York Civic Repertory, figuratively tweaked the beard of the Admiral of the Boston Navy Yard. Although the Admiral is a willing sponsor of organizations charitable and organizations artistic, his patriotism made him blanch with horror at the thought of including within the sphere of art, that which the artist confessed to be Communistic...