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...Manhattan he served a rigorous apprenticeship, drawing border ornaments for a printer, even did some house painting. In 1922 he got a commission to do the murals for a Russian nightclub, and his fiery red devils and blue Byzantine angels created a mild stir. Soon he was in demand as a designer and illustrator. Once established, he began to try out some of the ideas defended from his old grotesque doodles, and caught the eye and fancy of the critics. Among his commissions: charts and graphs for FORTUNE, cover drawings for TIME, and a famous series of drawings of World...
...grain merchant's son, born in Picardy, Matisse began a stumbling art apprenticeship at 20. He studied for a while under Adolphe Bouguereau (a sort of defrosted Ingres) and then under the minor painter and great teacher Gustave Moreau. He practiced and trained and worked, for as he was to tell his own students years later, "One must learn to walk firmly on the ground before one tries the tightrope." To support himself, he tried copying masterpieces in the Louvre-and learned to his dismay that the wives and daughters of the museum guards were better copyists than...
...this story records how Pat McCormick, the pretty art student from El Paso's Western College, wanted to make a career of bullfighting, and did. Though far from Hemingway's or Barnaby Conrad's bullfight Baedekers, this ingratiatingly modest account of a girl's apprenticeship in one of man's most mysterious worlds will tell most North Americans more than they ever knew about the art of the corrida...
...succession has worked well at Harvard since Reynolds and Rouner had four years apprenticeship at Newell. Wilde will no doubt do as well with his three years as a 150 oarsman and top sculler background...
Apachefied Dickens. Born in 1894, Cèline as an adult became a doctor in the Paris slums, a perfect apprenticeship for a writer who saw everything in terms of filth, corruption and decay. Two novels, boiling with ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation...