Word: painter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great painter; at least he painted some great pictures, which changed the face of American art, and look as fresh and strong today as they must have 50 years...
...Japan or anywhere else. And skill was key. Edo artists and patrons loved virtuosity within a given medium, but they didn't have a hierarchy of art and craft. To them, the work of the lacquerer or the papermaker was no less worthy than that of the screen painter, and in any case so many media could converge in a single work that art hierarchy became meaningless...
...much of his tone that night hinted at the treachery that was to ensue. Dylan took full advantage of the polite reception that his solo acoustic performance was receiving. On "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," every "s" is hissed like Shakespeare had intended. "The emptyhanded painter from the streets is painting crazy patterns on your sheets" cut through the silent night air like an icecovered blade. It is actually quite sickening how quiet the audience was. They clapped as if they were at tennis match. It was as if Dylan was singing to an empty room. Dylan continued...
...hopefully) invisible wires as actor-managers put their casts through ever more ethereal effects of movement and stage lighting; their defiance of gravity was to popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose that the national emblem of England was neither...
...kind of Indian. He'd seen Native American ceremonies and pictographs as a kid in Arizona, but his attachment to Indian art as a source of "primitive" authenticity came from museums and exhibitions in New York and was confirmed by other mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John Graham. Even the sight of Hopi painters running colored sand through their hands to create a pattern on the ground below, so often proposed as the starting point of Pollock's drip painting, came to him not on a Southwestern mountaintop but inside MOMA, which had brought some Hopis...