Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Szigeti measures an artist in large part by his catholicity. The artist is valuable who is "constantly reaching out for challenges ever farther from his original field or medium." The artist who is szigeti he dislikes...
Feiffer found the Village Voice, and then they found that he could sell. "Once they see you can sell," he says matter of faculty, "they don't care what you're saying." the cartoonist recognizes, thankfully, that he is less endangered by success in his medium than a night club comedian such as Sahl A live performer works with an audience immediately before him; he needs that laugh, he must have their direct approval and satisfaction. But Feiffer works for himself, alone with his materials, and must meet his own approval...
...recent drips of thaw have raised hopes that Russia may actually be ready for the break. How realistic are such hopes? Part of the answer can be found in the history of past disarmament negotiations, atomic test-ban talks, and attempts to achieve peace in the world through the medium of summitry...
...that realism "was the right kind of thing for me." Chumley's subject matter is primarily rural ("It's where I grew up. It's my natural element"), and though his paintings seem simple, they are actually enormously complex. He works in tempera, "a slow medium," goes back to his subject day after day, adding new impressions, perfecting the composition, unlocking fresh secrets...
Kreisler looked on Cellist Pablo Casals as "the greatest musician to draw a bow," and in his old age, he deplored the "fear of sentiment" among younger musicians. As for his own career: "I have achieved only a medium approach to my ideal in music," said Fritz Kreisler at 79. "I got only fairly near." Perhaps-but he got as close as any other mortal fiddler...