Word: dauber
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...which some men couldn't adjust. There were lots of little complaints-false heart attacks, failing appetite-things like that. The night before we went home, all hell broke loose, and men 40 and 50 years old marched through the dorms yelling, singing, beating pans." Says Clarence A. Dauber, engineering director of Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., who attended Columbia's course last summer at a mountain-top campus 50 miles north of New York City: "The strain gets progressively worse as weeks go on. About the second or third week men are hanging around bars and nightclubs more...
Author Eliot, 38, is an art editor with deep roots and long training in his field. A child dauber, he was ten when he first became aware of others' paintings. Borrowing his father's bicycle one day to visit a cubist exhibition at Smith College, where his father is a professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly...
...talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep him from drink. At the top of his form (the White Period, 1909-14), Utrillo painted the winding, empty streets and crumbling buildings...
Soon after World War II, successful Artist Colin-who had started as a penniless Montmartre dauber, decorating bistro walls and menu cards-concentrated on serious painting. Last week Paris saw the result. Painter Colin himself was on hand in the gallery to explain the difference between his old and his new work: "Designing a poster is like writing a telegram. Painting a picture is like writing a letter...
...India's more Westernized artists refer to Roy's work as "mere folk art." Roy does not care. "Don't think I'll change my style," he says. Artist Roy, trained at Calcutta's Government School of Art, spent 15 years as a successful dauber of polite European-type landscapes that looked good in the best Indian homes. Then, at the age of 34, he got bored and decided to look at his country again through Indian eyes. Going back to the villages of his native Bengal, he learned about local folklore and religious customs...