Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andrew Wyeth that opened last week at New York's Metropolitan Museum is bound to be successful. That, in the Met's eyes, means so jammed with people that the art will be virtually invisible. At 59, Wyeth is the most popular, perhaps the only popular "serious" artist in America. For the past 20 years his elaborately finished tempera paintings of the landscapes and neighbors around his winter farm in Pennsylvania and his summer house in Maine have become indistinguishable, for an enormous public, from a dream of vanished moral rectitude. Every split clapboard reveals the American grain...
Thingmaker Emett is that most insidious of subversives, a spoofer who makes existential sense. A nostalgic-romantic artist-humorist social commentator-engineer whose furbelows and feathery drawings are familiar to longtime readers of Punch and LIFE, he is a man with one hand at the controls of Nellie, "senior engine" of Far Tottering O.C.R.R., and the other outstretched for hot buttered crumpets on the moon...
...paper since early childhood. At 13 he devised a novel gramophone windup mechanism-just as gramophones succumbed to electricity. Undeterred, he became a stellar and sometimes lunar cartoonist. During World War II, some equally dotty boffin at the Air Ministry decided from Emett's complicated cartoons that the artist-a man as mild as Lewis Carroll's Dormouse-should be commandeered to help build nongentle-manly aircraft for the R.A.F...
...artist, a theatrical artist, must be a human being first and an artist second. When you applaud, it is not only our art but our life, for we are what we have been, not only on the stage but off it...I seem by accident to have hit upon the secret of the whole thing--the loneliness of all those who are trying to create. You can't escape it. You are alone, bitterly and inevitably alone...
Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted...