Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The people who were working on this week's cover story could return the compliment with sincerity. For Artist Boris Chaliapin, the assignment brought warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago...
Purity and Joy. For artistic success was not something that came easily to this provincial grain merchant's son. His first student efforts look as if they had been painted in a damp attic. He laboriously copied Louvre masterpieces, lasted only a few days as a student of Academician...
Until the Soviet Union succeeds in tolerating some measure of artistic freedom it will continue to stifle creative expression within the USSR, and to prevent free and open cultural exchange with nations abroad.
The recent trail of two Russian authors is apparently the first step in a new series of restrictions on artistic freedom in the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet government has managed in recent years to control its artists through unofficial channels, these unexpected proceedings might appear to be a last...
The classic dada art work was an ordinary urinal that Marcel Duchamp put in an exhibition and entitled Fountain. It typified the cynical frustration that grew out of World War I, and the movement satirized all the other artistic isms of the time.