Word: chardin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...first scholarship 51 years ago at the Royal Academy in Constantinople, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 18. He studied in Paris for nine years, there confirmed his devotion to the man he considers the greatest of all still-life painters, Jean Chardin. His luminous, ale-brown eyes flash when he speaks of the exactions of technique, which so many modern artists seem to neglect. Last week he had on his easel what looked like a well-composed impressionist painting, the color masses and emergent figures just right. It represented five weeks' work-only Stage...