Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang, a leading Asian writer-illustrator, spoke on the subject of "The Chinese Painter." Chiang compared the present state of culture to that of the 19th century, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "The American Scholar," called for an independent culture...
Chinese painting, chian said, has a long tradition, dating back to 3000 B.C., and it has been a painting of "taste." The Chinese painter, he added, has been concerned with seeking the "poetic truths of both man and nature," and this, he said, should be continued by the Chinese painter today...
Died. Jean Hersholt, 69, veteran Hollywood character actor, best remembered for his kindly radio portrayal of Dr. Christian; after long illness; in Hollywood. A sometime painter, book collector and translator (a complete English version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales), Danish-born Actor Hersholt became one of filmland's best-loved personalities...
Today the alumni will join students at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Parade and Exercises in Sanders Theatre at 10:45 a.m. Poet John Holmes and Chaing Yee, Chinese author and painter, will be the main speakers...
Essentially a landscape painter, Kienbusch finds that reworking nature and translating it into his own terms is the only way to get at its inner meaning and intensity. Says he: "I betray nature if I copy." In the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' Across Penobscot Bay (opposite) he shows "what it feels like on a beautiful day to look from an island across the bay. What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan...