Word: dreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Garbage! At Brussels' Royal Academy of Fine Arts, his salon-painting professors dismissed him as "an ignorant dreamer." He grew into a moody recluse, so pale and thin that some of his neighbors called him the Grim Reaper. His silences seemed endless, but his sudden outbursts could be terrifying. His work began to veer from his first subdued "middleclass interiors" and his early brilliant portraits into a macabre art that was like nothing else being done...
...Certain Grandeur. In such Ryder canvases as his famous Toilers of the Sea, the genius of the dreamer comes through with its familiar brooding power. But when Bierstadt was confronted by a scene like Lake Tahoe, he displayed a certain grandeur worthy of the sweep of the pioneer country he painted. A month ago, a dealer offered $15,000 for a Bierstadt that went for only $2,200 in 1946. If Ryder remains the master, Bierstadt. too, is still a part of the permanent American gallery...
...other subscribers wait with varying degrees of impatience for their copies of a slender little magazine called Auxilium Latinum. Then, with varying degrees of proficiency, they translate its contents. The latest issue has a profile on Fredulus Astaire, he lyrics of a song called Somnians Pulchra (Beautiful Dreamer), one column of jokes under the heading "Sub-rideamus!" (Let Us Smile!), and, as usual, a Crucigramma (crossword puzzle). Auxilium Latinum-which means Latin help-is a U.S. magazine printed in Latin...