Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford, caricatured above, edits The Trans-Atlantic Review (Paris). He is 53. In 1917 he fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope...
...This great painter, as everyone knows, died...
...another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
Pablo Picasso, the artist, likes fried eggs. They probably taste to him much as they taste to another man, but because he is a great painter he is capable of liking them more passionately and more concretely than your common fellow. It is not merely their savor that appeals to him; it is their mass and rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs...
This period has seen no painter with such a brave conceit. Some critics have thought that John Singer Sargent might have had it, but evidently he did not, for his paintings have begun to decay. Not noticeablyless. Sargent had a way of using bitumen and laying thin pigments on heavier ones; he painted as carelessly as if his masterpieces were no more than the facile originals for magazine covers or cigaret advertisements...