Word: patronizers
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...Pierrot, was the simple-wilted country bumpkin, often a servant who pointed out the follies of his master and for his audacity got his ears boxed. But Watteau's dignified, wistful figure is aimed not at burlesque. In all probability it was intended as a portrait of a patron or friend...
...fascinated. "Painting has been getting complicated again, brushwork and expressionism are coming back," he says, citing the expressively sprayed canvases of Jules Olitski and the newly fluid pictures of Larry Poons. "New art is disturbing to everybody," warns a big pop collector, Robert Scull, who is also a major patron of the newer art. "It takes a realignment of your computer to like it." Says Jan Van der Marck, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art: "They are doing just what the pop artists did; they are pushing the limits of the acceptable...
...hidden at the New York Public Library. Only a few people have known that it is there. Eliot himself believed it to be lost, and is thought to have hoped for oblivion for it. It was exploded last week with the publication of a biography of an avant-garde patron, New York Lawyer John Quinn. He owned the Eliot document, and his estate turned the material over to the library. It will take many sabbatical years of the Eliotian scholastic industry to measure the full meaning of the work...
...afterwards, in finishing it, the boldness vanishes." The first sketch of which Vasari spoke was usually an oil sketch on relatively fragile paper or unprimed canvas. On it, the artist of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design to an immense ceiling or wall. One reason: the sketch was the work of the artist, while the fresco was sometimes completed with the aid of assistants...
...Just when the Agnew furor had some Democrats smacking their lips, the ardently Republican Chicago Tribune jumped on Humphrey. Its Washington Bureau Chief, Walter Trohan, reported that Humphrey and his wife Muriel had received the land for their lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., as a gift from a "wealthy patron of the Democratic Party." Inescapable in the newspaper's story was the innuendo that Humphrey had been given the land in return for services rendered to a man in trouble with the Government...