Word: artists
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Abrams also stands to make additional "millions," according to Stewart, by marketing many spin-offs of Gnomes. Among the ventures that are fairly well set: gnome dolls, calendars, Christmas decorations, jigsaw puzzles, stationery and a gnome home, designed by Artist Poortvliet, that can be punched out from heavy paper and assembled in a few hours. Licensing arrangements are being discussed with companies that are panting to sell gnome dishes, tote bags, pillows, egg cups and jewelry, including an enameled gnome with gleaming diamond eyes. Negotiations are under way for a TV special. While Abrams has resisted the temptation to cash...
...verdict was thumbs down. Henry Kissinger did not like the portrait painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox. One viewer thought it made him look "somewhat a dwarf," and another pronounced it "a rogues' gallery thing." Not surprisingly, the Government, which had commissioned the art to hang in the State Department with Cox's portraits of former Secretaries Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk, rejected it. "We felt that the portrait lacked Mr. Kissinger's expression-the dynamism which exudes from him," said State Department Curator Clement Conger. Cox will be paid $700 in expenses...
...interest I have in people," he once memorably told a reporter, "I have with them in daily contact. I don't want them walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions, Stella's work seemed exemplary. No young artist's oeuvre had ever been so exhaustively discussed, or used to support such a variety of critical positions. As a result, when enthusiasm for " '60s-style" abstraction started waning at the end of the '60s, Stella's prestige began to falter. What happened to him when...
...time Kirchner painted his self-portrait in conscript's uniform, France had also experienced-from the other side of the trenches-the horrors of total war. But nothing by a major French painter in those traumatic years resembled Kirchner's paroxysm of self-pity-the haggard artist displaying the raw (but fictional) stump of his amputated painting hand becomes, as the nude in the background makes clear, an allegory of castration as well as loneliness and fright...
...intelligent artist in Northern Europe, after the work of Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really...