Word: painter
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Scholars know little more about Griinewald. They believe he was a lonely, moody man consumed by the religious revolts of the times, that he was court painter to the archbishops of Mainz and Halle for 17 years, that he married but had no children, that he may have visited Italy in 1509 to see the work of Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian masters, and that he died during the 1528 plague in the town of Halle, in disgrace, possibly because of his Lutheran sympathies...
Baseball with a Brush Philadelphia's Tom Meehan is a young (29) artist who loves baseball so much that he has worked for the past two years at putting it on canvas. In a Philadelphia gallery last week. Painter Meehan was showing off the results of his concentration-22 brightly colored studies of the Philadelphia Phillies. Consensus: Painter Meehan might have missed a home run, but he had at least cracked a clean single...
...fans enjoyed the show. In the first ten days, 9,000 dropped in for a look, some to see the art and some chiefly to check up on Painter Meehan's baseball. One visitor was Robin Roberts, the Phillies' ace right-hander and the National League's top pitcher (28 games won) last year. Meehan found him frowning over a painting of himself pouring a pitch toward the plate during a night game, pressed him for an opinion. Pitcher Roberts explained that this was the first time he had ever been "within half a mile...
Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists) is a fictionalized biography of famed French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
...Moulin Rouge (John Huston; United Artists), a biography of dwarfish Painter Toulouse-Lautrec, starring José Ferrer, wearing shoes on his knees, in his bid for a second award (his first: Cyrano de Bergerac...