Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARTIST'S QUEST seems to be after either matter or mode; at any given time he searches for what to say or how to say it. Like a child just learning to walk, each artist progresses one step at a time; if he lives long enough, he may have time to shift weight, as it were, and take a second step, so that he ends up standing in a totally new place. Styles and subjects are sought and articulated in what appears continual progression, and successive small steps by artists suddenly are recognized as giant leaps...
...Artistic rebels in a specific way. Rather than altering the pictorial elements of their work, they added expressive intensity to their vision. The plot, the actors, and the props of the drama in their pictures do not represent the most significant aspects of their artistic progress. Many of the themes and subjects they used were Romantic holdovers. Their achievement was rather that they changed the dramatic narrative of art from a third-person to a first-person account; that they made the plastic means convey not only the emotions of the characters within the picture, but the emotions...
Died. Hampton Hawes, 48, jazz pianist and composer (All Night Session); of a brain hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. An effervescent, percussive keyboard stylist inspired by the bop artist Bud Powell, Hawes performed with many of the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Garrison. Although Hawes became addicted to heroin during the 1950s, he kicked the habit and wrote about both his addiction and his music in his autobiography, Raise...
They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...
...Some artists have long, honorable careers but are continually ignored. They are swamped by their colleagues' bow waves. Giorgio Cavallon's career has been of this submerged kind. He is now 73, having been born near Vicenza in northern Italy in 1904, and he was one of the first abstract painters in New York in the 1930s, when painting abstract seemed automatically to consign an artist to ridicule and obscurity. In the '60s some of Cavallon's contemporaries, such as Milton Resnick or Lee Krasner, long written down as minor or fringe figures in the aesthetic...