Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fordingbridge, England, Artist Augustus John (TIME, May 31), 70, who used to raggle-taggle among the gypsies when he was younger, ran smack into a silly technicality of civilization: a ?2 fine for driving a car without a license...
Contemplation v. Fishing. Chariot's own work, nonetheless, is strikingly original. His new paintings were mostly religious in theme, though they transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...
...early '30s, when the artist was painting murals in Dartmouth College's Baker Library, one arm was lacking. Has a miracle occurred...
Grandma Moses was getting ready for her 88th birthday and for her tenth anniversary as a professional artist. In those ten years she had painted some 1,300 pictures, which now sell for as much as $3,000 apiece. "Let's see," she said last week, "I can start a batch of five on a Monday and have them finished off on a Saturday. It's according to how I feel, and my callers...
Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...