Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most magnificent master of the swearword who ever inhabited Kings Tavern was a bricklayer who was also an accomplished artist, painting in oils and watercolors. He swore in multi-syllables, interspersed profanity between dictionary words, such as: "This is the most non-Goddamn-son-ofabitching-sensical suggestions I ever heard of!" Nobody since Joseph Pulitzer Sr., who invented multi-syllable swearing, had heard such poetic loquacity...
...snipe at organized religion is the latest idea of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the militant atheist who won the Supreme Court ban on compulsory public school prayers. Last week she founded "Poor Richard's Universal Life Church," boldly named after her husband, a 56-year-old Texas artist. Mrs. O'Hair automatically received tax-exempt status-her way of pressuring the courts to void that privilege for regular churches. "Anything can be a religion," she claims, "even gurus or belly-button contemplators...
...legend of Orpheus, the poet who charmed all nature with his lyre, and his descent into Hades in search of his lost Eurydice, has captivated artists and writers since antiquity. Film Maker Marcel Camus (Black Orpheus) and Playwright Tennessee Williams (Orpheus Descending) have put the legend into modern dress. But no contemporary artist has found the myth so richly allusive and central to his art as Sculptor Varujan Boghosian...
...shaped like a lyre, in dozens of tiny toy buglers he found in a flea market. At one point, after other children gibed at his young daughter about her father's playing with toys, Boghosian sat down and reflected on his purpose. "The play world becomes for the artist a real world," he concluded, "while the real world becomes a play world, in the sense that the artist uses everyday existence to stir his fantasy...
...naive Americans were especially gifted at fantasy. The surrealist cat created by an unknown artist, looming hugely out of a sea of grass with a bird in its mouth and its eyes on future victims, is as haunting as Alice's Cheshire-and more terrifying. Another unknown painter imagined a fantastic city of medieval towers and Renaissance palaces approached by a steam-propelled sailing ship of the very latest type around 1850-a vision of Europe, perhaps, by an artist who knew it only in his dreams...