Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentimental Perfume. The daughter of a Lyon lingerie manufacturer, tiny (5 ft.) Singer Micheyl started out to be a painter, changed her mind at the Lyon Ecole des Beaux Arts and talked her way into a job singing in a little Left Bank nightspot. From there she graduated to the big clubs. She writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love...
...angular figurations. The music seemed to course through the long, flexible arc of his brown body like water through a garden hose; occasionally a soft cry broke through his half-open lips. Thus 6 ft.-6 in. Geoffrey Holder-at 26 a solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera, successful painter, actor, singer and choreographer-last week made his debut as director-star of his own calypso show, and introduced slightly dazed Brooklyn audiences to his sinewy, fiercely virile dance style...
...painters Art Historian Richardson puts on the roll call of the "pioneers" of modern art is the Italian-born New Yorker, Joseph Stella (1879-1946). His abstraction. The Bridge (opposite), is a portrait of steel and sinews, of mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized...
...first World War, Percy Wyndham Lewis (who chose to drop his first name) grouped himself with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce as one of "the men of 1914"--four young writers assembled under the vague banner of neo-classicism. Yet Lewis, despite his skills as a painter, satirical writer and critic, has long since fallen into a relative obscurity beside his illustrious contemporaries...
...this fundamental position. The result does more to cast a little side-lighting on the literary movements and issues of the early decades of this century than it does to explain the mind of Wyndham Lewis. (The book makes no attempt to deal with Lewis' contributions as a painter...