Word: gers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common thing to say about the late Fernand Léger that he was the artist of the machine age-but he was not entirely a man of his time. He knew poverty as a child, was gassed in World War I, had to flee before the invading Nazis in World War II. But there is little of death or destruction in his work, and if he ever knew despair, he never showed it. Léger so reveled in form and color that it was as if he had lived in a world without a single shadow...
...like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
Died. Ruth Fischer, 62, German Communist hoyden in the pre-Nazi Reichstag, who was expelled from the party in 1926, fled to France and then to the U.S., and who in 1947 denounced her brother, Ger-hart Eisler, as a top Kremlin agent in the U.S. and in 1948 wrote the scholarly anti-Communist Stalin and German Communism ; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...world. His father was a prosperous Le Havre wine merchant, and Dubuffet barely escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again. "My wife didn't like it ... She disappeared. Bon voyage! The brother-in-law disappeared...