Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yugoslavian citizen, Zivkovic fenced in five World Fencing Championships, competing in two weapons: epee and foil. In 1953 at the Brussels championships he made it to the quarter-finals. He studied in Belgrade for a year and became a "maestro," fencing's most honored accomplishment. After competing in the 1958 world championships in Philadelphia, the maestro decided to remain in the United States...
...ertake maestro James Yannatos...
...turned out to be one of the most successful artists Albers ever taught, but Albers loathed his work. "I don't want to know who did that," he would say as he entered the classroom, pointing at Rauschenberg's latest effort. Years later, when questioned about Rauschenberg, the old maestro snapped: "To date I have had something like 600,000 students; I can't be expected to remember all of them." Rauschenberg, in turn, was alarmed by his teacher. His unsystematic, jackdaw mind could not come to grips with Albers' imposing...
...artists, among them Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than 50 Georges Braque etchings, aquatints and lithographs, and for fans of the Italian maestro Giorgio de Chirico, there is a large survey of his late work, 1936-1975, depressing in its self-parody, hung in the august showrooms of Wildenstein & Co. (19 E. 64th...
...Fellini's penchant for detail is no laughing matter. Filming a Venice canal sequence in an outdoor tank, the maestro ordered 200 rats into the water. "Stop!" he shouted after noticing that half the rats were white: "Paint them brown." His hard-pressed casting staff is often given a sketch of a type of face he wants and ordered off to the back alleys of Rome in search of their prey. For Fellini, the right face is everything. "I chose Sutherland because he is completely alien to the conventional idea of Casanova-the dark-eyed Italian, magnetic, raven locks...