Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harmonious Balance. Born and raised in Paris, the son of a well-off engineer, Delaunay was not afflicted by the poverty that befell most of his fellow artists. He gave all his time to painting. From that aspect, he was lucky in marriage too. His Russian-born wife, Sonia Terk (whom Delaunay met in 1909), was a gifted artist, and they worked out an unusually harmonious balance between their talents. After staying a few weeks with the young couple in 1912, Apollinaire sighed that "The Delaunays start talking art as soon as they wake up." In his worse moments, Delaunay...
...designer of the costumes and scenery, Pop Artist Robert Indiana turned out to be the key person in the production. Thomson admired an earlier version that presented Mother as an animated album with quaint figures suggesting tinted photographs. Realist Indiana had other ideas. Incorporating Pop art's hard-edge feeling into the production, he splashed the stage with circus colors of red, gold, green and blue...
...with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
...people involved in the film making, I would just have to say that we do our best." Others blame excessive reverence for the traditional Disney method of moviemaking: batteries of cartoonists working under a rigid discipline on a single project for as long as three years. Says one young artist-animator who worked briefly for Disney: "The work is too confining. There's not enough room to use your creative talents. It's sterile...
...Borden and Hetty Green.) The women have been classified under ten major headings, most rather arbitrary, which just makes for more nit-picking. The editors at Time-Life must have had a hard time deciding whether Ayn Rand was a writer or an intellectual, whether Sarah Caldwell was an artist or "a winner in a man's world," whether Louisa May Alcott was a novelist or a "tastemaker." The difficulties of such judgements should have made one thing very clear to them: that most "remarkable" women are remarkable because they defy these classifications, because they have gone beyond the expected...