Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Presently supporting himself as a handy man, Paige considers himself a "folk artist." He eventually wants to go into bio-design because, he says. "I want more freedom to control those things that are controlling...
CARPENTER CENTER. Fifteen Signs by Willem Sandberg, in honor of the artist's 75th birthday, until Feb. 15. Portraits photos and drawings by students in Visual and Environmental Studies 40 and 181a through the end of February. Daily...
Arcadia that seemed to be slipping away -as indeed it was. "I consider," he wrote in 1888, "that women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters...The woman who is an artist is merely ridiculous...Gracefulness is a woman's domain and even her duty... In former times, women freely sang and danced in order to be winsome and pleasing to men. Today they must be paid off; the charm has gone...
Softness. But to look inside these limits is to rediscover a considerable painter. That his world was insulated, or his sexual politics Neanderthal, is not so important; an artist must be judged, to some degree, in terms of his aims. He wished to construct a universe of plea sure and relaxation - like Matisse's "armchair for tired businessmen," but more so - and in this he succeeded. He was the natural heir of the finest decorators of the 18th century, Fragonard and Boucher. "He who has not lived be fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life...
...reattributions were a downgrading. Restudying a landscape attributed to a minor Dutch artist, Allart van Everingden, Fahy's experts concluded that it was painted by Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the great landscapists of all time, thereby increasing its assessed value at least tenfold. The experts decided that a nativity "attributed to the Florentine school" had been painted by Giotto himself...