Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These people," pondered Painter De Marco last week, "they're very funny. I never had anything against the Russian people. But when you get in there with them like that, you get to thinking how you'd like to kick the hell out of them...
...Shahn, 53, "protest painter," whose expressionism packs a wallop: Ave, Composition With Clarinets and Tin Horn, Epoch...
...Swedish tailor, Henning began as a painter but found himself molding handfuls of stucco into tiny figures. The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory offered him a job and for 16 years he turned out lifelike figurines...
Anne Ford, also by Gainsborough, is the Cincinnati Art Museum favorite. The model later married one of Gainsborough's patrons, Sir Philip Thicknesse, who admired the painter for finishing "with his own hands every part of the drapery," instead of following the 18th century custom of letting an assistant do the costume...
...Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...