Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just more masks. As Bernstein says, with the blankets over his head, all their lives are fictions since it is safer to remain "under the covers." But without any three-dimensional character to compare them to, the final judgment on their image remains ambiguous. The life of a young artist in the fifties seems attractive on Mazursky's screen, but was it really, after all, this...
...experiments." Both lived through the Industrial Revolution and experienced the strains it exerted on the fabric of English society. Both stood on the threshold of the modern world. But Turner's delight in extremity, the catastrophic sublime rising from a deep instinctive pessimism, makes him appear a "modern" artist-perhaps the first. Not Constable. His green distances and slowly turning water mills, his amiable valleys and serene horizons banked with cumulus seem the last of what was passing, not the first of what was to come...
...short, an intensely specific artist. Specificity did not come easily, for any landscapist practicing around 1800 faced a battery of required stereotypes-chiefly the pastoral landscape with framing trees and unified brown tone, in the manner of Claude or Gaspard Poussin. Time and again, we see Constable glancing at the formula, using it, sheering off. He writes in 1803, the year of his Royal Academy debut: "I have been running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand . . I shall shortly return to Bergholt where I shall make some laborious studies from nature - and I shall endeavour...
...this?" a distraught Schuyler asks near the end. "Answer: habit. To turn life to words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round. Words translate and transmute raw life, make bearable the unbearable." It is the last refuge of the artist-or of the bitterly disappointed...
...hasn't got the symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned...