Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentina's most famous artist is Benito Quinquela Martin, a painter who behaves much like a kid left alone in a room with several cans of paint. He believes in using all sorts of colors, the louder the better. He also thinks that his art should not be confined to canvas rectangles: he likes to paint almost anything in reach...
Albert Herter, the governor's father, inherited old Christian's artistic inclinations, and he too settled in Paris. He married Adele McGinnis, a portrait painter, grew a Vandyke beard, and lived a carefree expatriate life in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. By the time his second son, Christian Archibald, was born in 1895, Albert Herter was a successful muralist, and young Chris came into a world of culture and comfort, if not luxury. German, learned from his governess, was his first language, and by the time he was ready for grammar school he was talking...
...Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Peter A. Peffer, manager of the Perry Point, Md. Veterans Administration Hospital, told about a new "rehabilitation incentive" for mental patients: money. Peffer has carefully transferred partially cured psychiatric patients at his hospital to the status of "member employees.'' (Sample jobs: landscape worker, painter, janitor.) He found that a monthly paycheck for many patients is a valuable bridge between life in an institution and life in society outside, restores their self-esteem and greatly accelerates recovery...
...tried to portray not just the skull beneath the skin, but also the brain beneath the skull. He was by turns humorous, analytical and bizarre, but never very bold. Instead of the grand simplicity fashionable in his day, Lotto offered narrow complexity. He was perhaps the first great "psychological painter," so of course the 20th century cottons...
Chastity & Chuckles. Far from being a follower, argued Berenson, Lotto was "a personal painter at a time when personality was fast getting to be of less account than conformity." Berenson praised his humor as so delicate that in the Triumph of Chastity (opposite, top), it escapes attention. True, Aphrodite and the scared little Eros "are fleeing before the fury of a female who evidently personifies Mrs. Grundy, but their innocent looks betray their belief that she has been seized by a sudden and unaccountable madness, for which they are in no way responsible...