Word: leger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dmitri Leger, a writer and editor for TheSource magazine, addressed some audience members'concern that rap music, which began as a form ofexpression for blacks, was being taken over bywhite musicians and executives...
...started out as a black-on-blackconversation, but now it's a black-on-worldconversation," Leger said. "There's somethinguniquely black about hip-hop, however, that at theend of the day, white artists won't be able toduplicate...
Colescott began his career as an abstract artist. In 1949, at a fairly young age, he left the United States for Paris to study with Fernand Leger, who was by that time working in quite a representational manner. Leger convinced Colescott that abstraction was not the most effective means of communicating to people. Colescott eagerly adopted Leger's more figurative style in an effort to attract his attention...
...public's interest in Vegas," says Wynn, CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc., and the son of a gambler who came to Las Vegas in the 1960s. The biggest stimulus at the Bellagio, of course, is Wynn's $300 million collection of works by, among others, Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns, and sculptures by Giacometti and Brancusi...
...Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris between 1926 and 1930; it was seen and enjoyed by a whole roster of artists, designers and architects--Joan Miro and Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier and Isamu Noguchi and, most important for the eventual direction of Calder's own work, Piet Mondrian...