Word: artisticness
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...acting well before that. I've always been a con artist, trying to talk my way out of trouble - or into...
...hang next to ceremonial objects and carvings by Alaskan natives-the message being that traditional crafts have as much cultural importance as fine art. But it's the museum's most innovative display that best captures the region. The Place Where You Go to Listen, the vision of Fairbanks artist John Luther Adams, is a computerized chamber that translates into light and synthesized sounds the cycles of the Alaskan wilderness-seismic activity, moon phases, positions of the sun, and so on. Data on these is gathered from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and streamed live to the auditorium...
...spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses, but in one way she was an artist. She was her own sculpture...
...Though a sincere socialist, Filonov had too realistic a vision to be approved - or even accepted - by the Party and by his artistic peers loyal to the Party. He tried to fit in: he rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working...
...mostly as a novelty. Now, Witness of the Unseen treats Filonov's oeuvre as classic art that commands the same depth of regard that Filonov invested in it. His aesthetic achievements are enough to mark him out as an utter original. Behind them lurk the bittersweet discoveries of an artist who plunged deeply into human dejection even as he reached for a beauty...