Word: painters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
Pablo Picasso, 77, whom most people think of as a painter, is quite possibly the most original sculptor in history. Not content with carving and modeling, Picasso sculpts by a third method: combining. He will make a bull's head out of a bicycle seat, with handle bars for horns, or a pregnant goat from a palm branch (for the back), a wicker basket (for the belly) and flowerpot udders, or a monstrous monkey, using a toy automobile for a head, a beach ball for a body. Cast in bronze, the results are more invigorating than inspiring, but they...
FROM the special viewpoint of portrait painters, which might be defined as hungry-eyed, U.S. Presidents in general have shown one serious weakness: they dislike extended portrait sittings. And by the same token artists are apt to strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter...
First Showing. In Los Angeles, House Painter Edward L. Rice, being sued for divorce, was ordered by Superior Court to stop driving around his neighborhood with a sign on his car: "My wife is the meanest woman on earth...
...declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King of Morocco. Most of them received Dr. Niehans' rejuvenation treatment-one or more injections of cells from an unborn lamb...