Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This form of education will answer at least two of the three practical questions asked by young artists today, Shahn claimed. These questions are "What shall I paint?", "How shall I paint?", and "What security can I have as a painter...
Married. Edmund Purdom, 30, British-born actor of screen (The Egyptian) and TV; and Alicja Darr, 26, Polish-born blonde painter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...what amounts to a major shift in Japanese national taste, an almost forgotten Confucian scholar named Tomioka Tessai, who died in 1924 at the age of 88, is emerging as Japan's most popular painter since the Ukiyo-e masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. What makes his sudden rise to fame so surprising is that Tessai's work boldly departs from the polish and finish of Japan's professional, court-painting tradition. Instead, he used a rough, impulsive brushwork that often seems closer to the West than to the Orient...
...tender Elvira, perhaps depressed at the sight of the dying man painting her, was done in his characteristic arabesque style. By the time he painted this picture, "Modi" no longer had the strength to stagger around Paris with Utrillo. each toasting the other as "the greatest painter in the world" and "the greatest drinker." A few months after he finished the picture the painters, sculptors, poets and models of Montmartre and Montparnasse gathered for his funeral, and an enormous cortege solemnly followed the hearse to the cemetery. All along the road the same policemen who had arrested...
Died. John Butler (Jack B.) Yeats, 85, younger brother of the late Poet William Butler Yeats and Ireland's leading painter, known for his canvases filled with tinkers, tavern loafers, pirates and circus performers idling about Dublin's streets; in Dublin...