Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reading about the "artist of exuberant vitality and unblunted idealism," Mark di Suvero, I received the impression that his "sculpture" manifested a frustration in his childhood-his Erector set lacked too many parts to build a conventional structure...
...federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability to flimflam network executives: "If he's a con artist, he doesn't need to be in crime. He should be in Hollywood. He would be making a million dollars a year...
...were executed a decade later-possibly by the King himself. An informative commentary precedes each folio, describing its place in the story. That part of the knight's adventures not illustrated is told in the introduction, along with the historical background of René, the royal poet. And artist...
...Shahn's working approach was primitive, his visual sense was not. By trade he was a painter and graphic artist of considerable reputation; in person he was a close friend and one-time roommate of the late Walker Evans...
...great sensitivity to form, the color studies a highly developed Fauvist technique, in which an unrestricted palette expresses shape and perspective. But as Kupka notes on one sketch: "here...maybe I am regressing to the post card." And the final result is a very indifferent painting--as the artist evidently felt himself, judging by the number of times he reworked and restudied, the theme...