Word: lautrecs
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...hanging was too good for 400-odd pictures and sculptures which the Royal Academy had bought for the Tate. Last year indignant M.P.s wanted to know why publicity-conscious Sir John had allowed pictures to be taken in the Tate of Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor simpering at a Toulouse-Lautrec. Last week Director Rothenstein faced far more serious trouble...
Franklin Watkins, who teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an older type of traditionalist. His Solitaire echoes in its modest way the efforts of such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec and such titans as Tintoretto. Combining human pathos and delightful paint, quality, the picture follows the ancient though rarely stated rule of appealing to laymen and artists equally...
...every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that inspired...
...Franz Liszt sighed as Misia Sert played the piano, "Ah, if only I could still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There...
...France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign. Among Colin's subjects: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Pavlova, Katharine Hepburn, the French National Railroads, Cinzano, vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville...