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...Stare, Stare, Stare." From the beginning it was almost inevitable that Marsh should devote his life to art. Born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank, the son of artist parents, Marsh was drawing before he was three. After Lawrenceville and Yale ('20), he got his first job as an artist for the New York Daily News, doing city scenes and theater sketches which, for Marsh, "took the place of an art school." When Marsh was 27. a trip to Paris and an introduction to the Louvre's old masters turned him seriously to painting...
...head, copy and learn by heart the heads of Da Vinci; for the body, Michelangelo and Durer; for everything, Rubens." Having learned from art, Marsh turned to life: "Go out into the streets, stare at the people. Go into the subway. Stare at the people. Stare, stare, keep on staring...
...relations effort in history" with Know Your Bank Week for 650 state banks and their bankers. Suggested commercial to be used on radio and TV programs: "There's an old story about a banker who had a glass eye . . . Nobody could tell which one was real. No glassy stare will greet you at your local banks...
...hold the attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...
...paroxysms of pain and rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick his head inside the tent and O Aleijadinho (The Little Cripple, as his townsmen called him) seized his mallet and chisel and showered His Excellency with stone chips...