Word: krimmel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Common Man. He got an assist from Hogarth, whose prints he had seen, and from 17th century Dutch genre painting, with its flirtatious girls and grinning yokels. His first public success came in 1830, with Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride, plagiarized from a German genre painter named John Krimmel, who had worked briefly in America. Its stock types, from the grinning black fiddler to the bucolic suitors, chimed exactly with American taste in popular writing and theater...
...seems TIME is no longer driven by news events but rather by fads. ROBERT M. KRIMMEL Vashon, Wash...
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