Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five and beginning to develop a style, his family took him along on a trip to Paris; Hasan could hardly be pried away from the museums. Once, in a burst of enthusiasm, he scaled up a pedestal to a Rodin bust, hugged & kissed it. His father was studying with Painter Andre Lhote at that time, and one day he took one of Hasan's pictures over to show the master. Lhote seized the painting, thinking it was the senior Kaptan's work. "At last," he exclaimed, "you have found the true feeling of the modern...
...Painter Mullican has spent half his young life searching for a style. He tried everything from printmaking to wildly abstract human figures, but it was the war and his 21 months as an Army topographer in the Pacific that showed him what he was looking for. Today, he builds his strange and wonderful landscapes by laying on row after row of thin, radiating lines in red, yellow and brown paint with the blunt edge of a knife. He works until the ridges seem to catch and reflect the light, like fine embroidery done in metallic thread, and then...
...show last year set critics cheering. Brought up on an island off Dalmatia's coast, where "everyone has his own donkey," Music paints spectral quadrupeds and hilly landscapes in dusty roses, blues and ochers, almost as if he sees them through a sandstorm. Music was a more realistic painter when the Nazis arrested him in 1943 as a partisan sympathizer, later sent him to Dachau. Says he: "Perhaps the ugly things of the concentration camp have brought me toward poetry. There is more mystery...
...sounds were striking or amusing, reserved judgment on musical values. But they saw the point of Conductor Leopold Stokowski's introductory remarks: the conventional composer usually has to wait for somebody else to play his music, and it might be to his advantage to work, like the painter, directly on the materials of sound-the tape recorder, for instance...
...season, will start today, and will call the signals. Dexter Lewis, leading scorer with three of the team's five touchdowns, will start again at wingback. Dick Oehmler, a good runner and an excellent kicker, will be at tailback. The only big change in the backfield sees Art Painter starting in place of Bill Volmer at fullback. Volmer, the team's best tackler, will start on defense...