1. An artist has as much right to interpret history as a historian. 2. But it makes advances, also in the traditional relationship an artist has with a record company. 3. Certainly some famous recording artists have had some frightening moments when they have been nudged and brushed past by these two ghosts. 4. Even the foreground artists had to be specially selected, because not everyone was willing or able to adapt his technique. 5. Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats. 6. Our artists had a freedom which the Soviet nonconformists envied with incredulity. 7. The following list of aesthetic compromises is by no means complete, but it illustrates how early recording artists had to adapt. 8. What relationship exists between the painting and the vision of reality that the artist has before his eyes? 9. The landscapes of the French painter Claude Lorraine have a unique luminance that no other artist has quite captured. 10. After all how many artists have time to explain what they are doing while, or even after, they are doing it. |