Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business man, the financier, the military leader, the engineer, the scientist, the inventor -have a more genuine grievance against the world. They have erected the edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they can paint, write, compose, the artists have been able to project themselves before posterity as the supermen of the race; because they can only build, invent, organize, the business man, the war lord and the scientist must pass into early obscurity. A hundred years from now Stinnes, Basil Zaharoff, James J. Hill...
...Paint Perfume -Zona Gale - Appleton...
Auguste Rodin, the greatest sculptor of his time, sought the same thing in stone which Monet sought in paint-movement and the effect of luminosity. He was a self-made man in more than one sense, since, working up from poverty, carving statues for 60 years, he resembled in his last years one of his own works in stone...
Chesterton said: " It was the whole point of Whistler and his school that they produced the picture without troubling about the meaning. We may say it is the point of Picasso and the rest to paint the meaning without troubling about the picture...
Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little...