Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editors delight in pictures of paintings with the painter named; in sculptures with the sculptor named; in articles on trials with the lawyer named; in music with the composer named; in books with the author named, etc., etc. But the poor architect . . . must, alas, take a back seat to the photographer who snaps his masterpiece...
Communist Painter Pablo Picasso...
...painter on an isolated fire-lookout tower, keep him there alone for weeks at a time with nothing to look at but the rugged vastness of Washington State's Cascade Range, and something is bound to happen. For Seattle's Kenneth Callahan, 48, who stood three summer fire-watching stints during World War II, what happened was the crystallization of a lifetime's thinking and painting experience. "In the complex of crags, clouds, movements and mist I saw identity with life," he recalls. "I was struck by the awareness that rocks, man, animals, ideas all come from...
Even royal mistresses, such as Henri IV's Gabrielle d'Estrees (see color page), posed to show their full, solid voluptuousness revealed under the thinnest of gossamer veils. To hold a king's roving eye, Painter François Bunel the Younger needed all his Mannerist tricks: he shifted the focus endlessly within the frame, from head and face to breasts to Gabrielle's arched, elegant hand holding a ring, then to maidservant, and finally to Gabrielle's mirrored profile, which disobeys all known laws of reflection...
...Roman Catholic Church, and since there was no church of that denomination any nearer, he could stay at home Sundays from now on." Other members of the family adapted themselves to the manners and morals of the day with equal resourcefulness. Cousin John Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high...