Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist's Ophelia...
Less ambitious, but even more to the Parisian taste, were the exploits of 23-year-old "Pierrot le Fou" (Crazy Pete), who made his seventh jailbreak in three years. Wavy-haired Pierrot (real name: Pierre Carrot) began his career as an escape artist at the age of 20, when he pretended to hang himself in his cell and knocked out the jailer who rushed to cut him down. Recaptured some months later, Pierrot sawed his way into the cell of a condemned murderer. Then Pierrot used an iron bar to dispose of the guards who came to escort the murderer...
...ctor Poleo seems much too young and much too miserable to be Venezuela's best-known artist. He has been miserable most of his life, and looks old before his time. The son of a Caracas furniture maker, he was a moody boy, blinded in one eye by a childhood accident, and haunted by the memory of a violin teacher mangled by a car near Hector's house. Héctor spent most of the long, monotonous days of his childhood drawing by himself-in books, on walls, on scraps of paper. Finally his father, who had once...
...horror: "This man's bones should be broken in his body!" The violent paintings and portraits, with their savage slashes of color, their gnarled hands and twisted faces, didn't please the critics either. "Disgusting plague sores," one critic called them. "Puddles of foul stink." And the artist, he added, was "a mangy creature...
...know what you mean, Eustace-is Evelyn depraved enough so that, as an artist, he can make the spiritual leap from malice to malignance...