Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest things for a new artist to do these days is convince Europe's jaundiced critics that his style is 1) new, and 2) worth having. A modest 42-year-old Javanese painter named Affandi can qualify on both counts. He has never taken a formal art lesson in his life, but after his first big exhibit in London six months ago, the New Statesman's John Berger flatly called him "a painter of genius." Last week, at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, the critics got another glimpse of Affandi and he still looked very good...
...attention he was getting. He had never been out of Java until three years ago, and in the next few months, he will travel to Paris. Rome, Stockholm and the U.S. with his paintings. When he gets home, he wants to start an art school for native painters, but first he wants to look around a bit and see what the Western world has been doing in art. "If I'd never left Java," he says, "I would never have seen where I stand as a painter." He adds thoughtfully: "I'm certainly above average...
Shortly before Walt Kuhn died in 1949, the rawboned old man looked back on his long, lusty life as a bicycle race rider, vaudeville producer, cartoonist, art teacher and painter to make a typically enthusiastic confession: "I was past 40 before I painted a decent picture. I was the gauchest thing you ever saw. But I've had fun. God, I've had more fun! I've probably painted three or four masterpieces ..." One of Greenwich Village-born Painter Kuhn's best pictures, Trio, is the public favorite at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center...
Freshman Football--Major football numerals--1956--Thomas B. Kent, Dexter S. Lewis, John T. Maher, William G. Markos, Jan H. H. Meyer, Jr., Jost W. Michelsen, Harvey B. Mickelson, William M. Meigs, Peter F. Morrison, Robert E. Morrison, Richard M. Oehmler, Arthur C. Painter, Jr., John O. Pettiford, Jr., Samuel F. Quarterone, Edward Rosenthal, Kenneth R. Rossano, Sherwin L. Samuels, Peter Summers, Orville M. Tice, William B. Volmer, Arthur M. Warren, Henry H. Gaffney...
...this point Rolfe passed himself off as a painter of religious subjects, and soon had a commission to decorate a shrine at Holywell. With due care he managed to prolong the work for more than two years. Finally the priest had to show him the door. Furious, Rolfe claimed he had been cheated, joined the staff of a local magazine and filled its columns with vituperations against the priest. What he couldn't get into the paper he put in poison-pen letters that flooded the community. The paper folded; Rolfe went back to London...