Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhibit now under consideration represents something of a curiosity: a rip-off of a ripoff. It will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature...
Michael Grant Marshall, 31, has become the best relief artist in baseball largely on the strength of his screwball. Actually, he throws several variations on the basic screwball, a pitch that breaks away from lefthanded batters and often sinks as well. To keep hitters off stride, Marshall also has a good fast ball and a decent curve. Two weeks ago, in the All-Star game, he put his repertory to good use, retiring the last six American League batters to preserve the National League's 7-2 victory...
...National Wildlife Federation, is announcing a similar marketing program aimed at children. For the next four months, Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven food stores will contribute to the federation 1? from the sale of each 250 Slurpee, a crushed-ice drink in a cup featuring drawings by Wildlife Artist Charles Ripper. The federation will use the money to buy an 835-acre area in South Dakota currently home for 15% of the surviving American bald eagles; the land will then become a preserve under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior. To secure the purchase, Southland has already forwarded...
Onstage, wearing numerated football jerseys, work shirts and crisp khakis, C. S. N. & Y. work energetically through a grueling 3½-hour set. In between numbers the group confers in a football huddle, selecting songs by collective whim but carefully allowing each artist a chance to display his own material. Packed tightly together in front of the stage, teen-agers too young to have been concertgoers in 1970 sway in a mass and sing every word of Carry On. Older C. S. N. & Y. fans occupy stadium bleacher seats, many with small children...
...stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy Georges Rouault, not one significant modern artist has built his imagery round doctrinal religion and its themes. There were some fitful bouts of church patronage: Matisse's chapel at Vence, Corbusier's at Ronchamp. But on the whole, the old symbiosis was dead...