Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual bullfight-for-fun fiesta in the southern French town of Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...
Start the Emotions. Soon afterwards, the Hudson River school fell from favor. Even its most grandiose productions came to seem thin, brown and finicky. They had prepared the way for equally realistic but less pretentious and literary painters-Homer, George Inness and Thomas W. Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions...
About The American Shrimp Girl [TIME, July 25]: I should like to suggest to Painter Philip Evergood that he concentrate on painting sea gulls, shrimp and fish and that he leave the painting of typical American girls to artists more capable than he. For TIME to mention his kindergarten canvas in the same breath as Hogarth's masterpiece [see cut] is nothing short of sacrilegious. Before Evergood can be a good painter, he will have to learn the meaning of humility...
Died. Willy Pogany, 72, Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera's Cog d'Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery...