Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When you have a classic, it is foolish to revise it. In redoing the Mona Lisa, an artist does not attempt to improve on it, he tries to duplicate. Who would try to rewrite War and Peace? The Jay and the Americans of literature? No. If such a literary group existed, it would have the sense to reproduce the book simply...
...forest of a salacious mural right behind them and I asked our guide who had not, at the age of 43, yet befouled his body with tobacco, alcohol, tea or coffee, why I asked him do Adam and Eve have clothes on. "That's just the way the artist did it" he stammered as though artists had the ability to sculpt fully-dressed Adams and Eves into our belief or draw immaculate conceptions into the real World...
...boyfriends painted that. He's a struggling young artist. When you said you had a friend in the Navy, I thought you might have meant him, but I knew he wouldn't have given you my number...
...they hung the painting near Pope Paul's own likeness in the press room of the Holy See. It had been in place more than a month when someone noted that the young priest bore a suspicious resemblance to the figure in a Red Chinese propaganda poster. The artist, a little investigation revealed, had copied a portrait of Chairman Mao as a youth of 27, striding through Kiangsi province in China's traditional gentleman's robe...