Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week of February 1923, a handful of young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach...
...Surrealism is partly Spanish in origin and its distinguished leaders include Parisian Spaniards like Joán Miró and Salvador Dali; 2) Artist Hayter went to Spain last year not on his own but at the invitation of the Leftist director general of Fine Arts, José Renau, who encouraged him to paint a score of flaming canvases with such titles as Man-eating Landscape...
...fact that Englishman Hayter was in Spain while Spaniard Dali was getting up a show of dream-constructed knickknacks in Paris (TIME, Feb. 7) remained a paradox last week. There was no mystery, however, about Madrid's hospitality to Artist Hayter...
Paul Hindemith, Eminent German composer, will be the guest artist at the Boston Symphony concert this evening. In his first appearance with this orchestra, he will perform the solo part in his Concerto for viola and Chamber Orchestra, known as the "Kammermusik...
Method No. 1 begins by coating a piece of sheet iron with heavy black enamel, firing it at such a high temperature that the enamel and iron are fused, then firing on two more coats of white enamel. On this the artist paints as if it were canvas, using pigments of powdered enamel mixed with a special oil. The panel is then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample...