Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Painter-Diplomat. Fame, money and beautiful lovers-such, Freud tells us, are the chief goals of an artist's life. No painter ever achieved them more fully than Rubens. In a Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance...
Died. Eliot F. Noyes, 66, tastemaking industrial designer, architect, artist and wholesale shaper of corporate images and buildings (IBM world's fair pavilions, Mobil's cylindrical gas pumps), whose abiding reverence was for pure functionalism and uncluttered, recognizable packaging ("Familiarity breeds acceptance," he once quipped); of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn...
...Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that she is chasing after a romantic ideal, unattainable in life and certainly in death. "I'm a good dentist," he tells her. "And I might have been a good artist instead, if I'd had a chance to try. But I don't want the chance...
...shall fight to the bone," says Jean Dubuffet. At 75, the artist is waging war against Renault, the French automobile firm. At issue: a giant sculpture park Dubuffet designed for the company's headquarters outside Paris. Nine months after construction began in January 1975, Renault decided that the Salon d'Ete would be too expensive to complete and to maintain, and called a halt. Dubuffet, who says the ensemble of sculpture is "the sum of twelve years of work," promptly sued "to defend the right of the artist over his creation"-and lost. Undaunted, he has appealed...
...world of remarkably exact feeling, into which one can move without strain, while knowing at each moment that the precision of his sensuousness is there to correct the randomness of ours. This mixture of joyousness and didacticism pervades the best of French modernism, but Motherwell is the one American artist who can make it work...