Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been as content with his own talent as the public was, Wyeth might have remained a minor painter. But he kept expanding his capacity to picture things with ever-increasing clarity. Pennsylvania fields and farmers, Maine inlets and fishermen, old houses and musty rooms were his favorite subjects. As the clarity of his work increased, the sentimental side of Wyeth's subject matter diminished in importance. Last winter, at 35; Wyeth sat down to paint a practically empty picture. It became the hit of his exhibition at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week...
...history of French painting and arrived at a conclusion which was probably as true as such sweeping statements about any subject can ever be. Throughout the show, he maintained, "we find a common approach to life conceived of charm and optimism. Without evasions and without false sentimentality, the French painter expresses his love, his mystic respect of nature...
Then Edwards fell in love with an actress, and just when Misia was feeling most deeply forsaken, Jose Maria Sert, the Spanish painter, walked into her apartment wearing a sombrero and Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...
Their few weeks together stretched into a couple of decades during which Misia continued to charm such people as Diaghilev, Clemenceau and Debussy, and Sert won an international reputation as a mural painter, plus a fortune in commissions. All was idyllic until Sert met Roussadana Mdivani, a Georgian princess young enough to be his and Misia's daughter. It was a strange triangle, with Sert torn between Roussadana and Misia. each of whom loved and consoled the other at every turn of Sert's affection. Misia let him have a divorce. "The poor girl was not responsible...
...first act goes back to 1822 or 1826 (the date is uncertain), when a French aristocrat with an unlikely name, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, and a Parisian scene-painter named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed...