Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is ''artistic license"-which is not the license to keep a studio-harem, but the right of any artist to use his tools and materials in any way he pleases to achieve the effect he wants. . . . JOHN WILLIAM SHAW...
...past four years Artist Blickenderfer has been employed by the New York Post as a retoucher of photographs. He lives in suburban Astoria with his dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source...
Intellectually. Artist Blickenderfer's neo-scopes are ingenious. Effect of them is to place the spectator not at a framed "window'' but inside the scene painted. Artistically, as modest Artist Blickenderfer agrees, they are at best experimental...
...fruits of Audubon's hard work were bitterly attacked by contemporaries-by art critics like William Dunlap, by jealous naturalists like Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...
...program in Manhattan were 27 novelists, 18 critics, ten poets, 19 journalists and political commentators, ten scientific writers, three authors of travel books, two biographers, four preachers, six publishers, four authors of garden books, one artist, 28 assorted authors and illustrators of children's books, one humorist, one cabinet member, one university chancellor and one ranee...