Word: artists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Zippy's introduction, the man in theyellow hat joined the rest of the adults inenjoying the bounty of three open bars andnumerous buffet tables in the the balloon-bedeckedCharles Hotel ballroom. Groups of children andadults scattered about were entertained by aclown, a magician, a make-up artist, and otherperformers...
Stankard, 44, is an artist in glass. His nimble fingers can fashion fragile slivers into wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they are not exact replicas of woodland plants, but neither are they prettified curios. Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay. The complexity of the design, Stankard says, must not be obvious. "It must reveal itself...
...years he has gone from struggling craftsman to an artist whose crystal-encased wild flowers are in demand by collectors around the world and represented in museums from the Smithsonian Institution to London's Victoria and Albert. Dwight P. Lanmon, director of the Corning Museum of Glass, which also collects his work, sees in Stankard's flowers a spontaneity and freshness that "capture the quality of living plants...
...trying to lay something on them. I prefer the backdoor approach. the paintings are meant to say, 'Welcome, Welcome.' Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that." --Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist, explaining his artwork bolted on the back of parking sings throughout Cambridge. (10/21/87...
...story bristles with shrewd ideas on topics as varied as how Shakespeare's The Tempest ought to be played (an amateur production is the fulcrum of the plot) to the role of egalitarian wartime food rationing in dismantling the old British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers...