Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl was a slender French blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
Salon later that year, it won a medal of honor, but caused no public stir, appealed to no collector. Hoping for a buyer, Painter Chabas shipped the picture to the U.S. There the unhoped-for happened. It came to the attention of bewhiskered Anthony Comstock, self-appointed monitor of U.S. morals...
...Exactly Like the Picture." The picture went back to Painter Chabas in Paris, who sold it to a well-rubied Russian for the equivalent of $10,000. But of all the fortunes made from reproductions of the picture by enterprising entrepreneurs, Chabas once plaintively remarked that "nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
...engraved on the black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter, who put his design on it while it was still in a dry-mud unfired state...
...verbal luxuriance and approached by a dozen roads as twisted and surprising as the narrow alleyways in the dense Attarine Quarter. Justine is seen from many angles-through the despairing eyes of her first husband, in her own diary, through the cool and critical intelligence of Clea, a woman painter. Nessim discusses Justine endlessly; the Irish narrator seeks to define and grasp her attraction. Clea perhaps comes closest when she says: "After all Justine cannot be justified or excused. She simply and magnificently is; we have to put up with her, like original...