Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dots in the Eye. Even to his contemporaries, who did not know until after Seurat's death that the dark, aloof painter had taken one of his models as mistress and fathered a son, the pointillist was a distant, mysterious yet compelling figure. Born the son of a well-to-do but highly eccentric Paris bailiff (who astonished dinner guests by screwing knives and forks into his artificial arm to do the carving), young Seurat got only passing marks from his drawing teacher. On his own, he delved into weighty scientific treatises. Haunting the Louvre's galleries...
Promptly at 8 o'clock every morning since Dec. 20, the painter and his helper showed up at the Harrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Without a word to anyone, they went to work on the outside of the building. No one knew the men's names, and when one staff member remarked that he had no idea that the school was up for a painting, the painter airily replied, "Oh, you know how the Government is." He worked even on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and each night he vanished as mysteriously...
...Froth. "Tall in body and mind," a handsome, brown-eyed man with a deep voice, Brann first hit Waco at the age of 39 after an odyssey that began in rural Illinois. He went to work as a bellhop when he was 13. By 21, he had been a painter, freight-train fireman, brakeman, baseball pitcher and manager of an opera company. Then, educating himself as he went along, he worked on newspapers in St. Louis, Galveston, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. In Austin, his first attempt to run his own paper foundered...
Painting of Mystery. The Merode triptych is one of the great mystery paintings. The painter, date and donor are all matters of conjecture, though the Met's Curator Theodore Rousseau Jr. makes a good case for attributing it to Robert Campin and dating it about 1420. In this century it has been exhibited only twice-in Bruges in 1912 and in Paris in 1923. Since then it has been kept out of sight...
...subjective and objective elements, however, is only partially successful. The rhythm and consistently gaunt imagery give the poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color in the imagery, something which...