Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This latest role for BB was conceived and executed by Asian (Alain Gourdon), a French artist who once won the Grand Prix de Rome for his sculpture, and now sometimes draws magazine pinup girls. While vacationing in Thiron-Gardais, Asian decided to try his hand at sculpting a new Marianne, who has been reconceived a number of times since she was first created in 1848. Says Asian: "All the Mariannes invariably have a Greek profile. It's ridiculous to have a Greek god dess representing the French Republic. Automatically, the image of Brigitte Bardot imposed itself on my spirit...
...stands 7 ft. tall, weighs in at 251 Ibs. A draft-eligible junior, Smith, according to former Boston Celtics Center Bill Russell, is already capable of stepping into a pro uniform. Like Russell, he has the agility and range to block shots anywhere in the keyhole. A hook-shot artist, Smith averaged 27 points and 26 rebounds a game this season. Kendall Mayfield of Tuskegee, 6 ft. 1 in., has topped 40 points in five games this year. Says one scouting report: "Excellent outside. Good driver. Takes opponents to basket well. Very quick. Has poise." William Berker, chief scout...
...harpies of legend, having once gripped an artist, are slow to let go. One of their regular victims has been Paul Gauguin. The image of the painter has been yanked, tugged, tortured and distorted by a succession of novels and films starting with Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence...
...tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh, Maurice Denis and the Symbolist poets. Tahiti served only to inject new subjects into a vision and manner that had already set. This fact, crucial to an understanding of Gauguin's art, is elegantly documented in a selection...
...chose to see what he wanted to paint. And his ideas on what was paintable grew out of other art-from the broad color patches and rhythmic line of Japanese cloisonne and wood block prints, from rural Breton sculpture and the flattened, monumental figures of a French artist he greatly admired, Puvis de Chavannes. Style absorbed him -not only the priapic swagger and ebullience of his own lifestyle, but the pervasive feedback of art style into nature. Even the fierce colors which scandalized some of his contemporaries were meant to be remote from nature. "Imagine," he once wrote, alluding...