Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solid wheat dealer of northern France, Artist Matisse dutifully began life as a lawyer's apprentice, was forced to give up his law studies when a severe attack of appendicitis left him an invalid for many months. Painting was suggested to help his convalescence and he liked it so well that he never opened a law book again...
...while his own painting swung further and further to the Left, while his interest in oriental art-Persian miniatures in particular -grew by leaps & bounds, he worked for the Government making microscopically exact copies of the great paintings in the Louvre for private collectors and provincial museums. By 1906 Artist Matisse, still youthful, but bearded as he is today, had given up copying, was the leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called Les Fauves (Wild Beasts).* Outraging conservatives, they acquired much publicity but few customers. To Paris from Russia, three years prior, had come one Serge...
...Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...cubist experiments, the heavy-hipped "classical" goddesses, the pure abstractions, and the portraits, flavored strongly by Ingres, through surrealism until 1934 when, sued by his wife for divorce, he temporarily gave up painting. A morose, silent Spaniard more interested in the technique of painting than the problems of humanity, Artist Picasso avoids appointments whenever possible, lurks in Paris carrying three watches to be sure to be on time for those he must keep...
...Theodora Goes Wild" is the story of a small town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...