Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neil Diamond as an artist has earned the respect of millions of people throughout the world, and in my opinion Mrs. Kennedy was way out of line...
...knocked down for $250,000. Thus far the script looks banal-"Impressionism for Fun and Profit." But the painting was not by an Impressionist, nor even by a European. It was Steelworkers -Noontime, by Thomas Anshutz, and its price established an auction record for any picture by an American artist, living or dead. Eccentric as this one sale was, it reflects a massive price movement in Americana that has become the most interesting event in American art dealing. Americans have discovered in their own artistic ancestry a quality of observation less sophisticated but as socially informative as that of their...
Because humanity continues, Singer said, art will too. "A young artist cace came to me and told me he was afraid he hadn't suffered enough," he went...
Singer warned against art which strays too far from storytelling--"the artist is an entertainer in the highest sense," he said--and against the acceptance of restrieve aesthetics that "would reduce fiction to a toy and a sport for amateurs--we have seen it happen to poetry already...
Singer defined talent as "an innate and relentless urge to brood about the eternal questions, a refusal to accept human and animal suffering--so that the artist is never a collectivist, but always unique...