I have never seen a really artistic play that failed, unless it was badly done".
And why shouldn't he make some bucks, especially when "Romance," his last truly artistic play, seemed so out of touch with its moment?
In Auerbach's jokey birthday cards you see the level of artistic play these painters shared when they met for breakfast at the Cock Tavern, Smithfield Market, laughing at how they were remaking the baroque in stupendous nudes and faces built out of paint.
In 1903 04, the club built up a promising squad of players, and went on to dominate English football for almost a decade, the team known for their "artistic play, combining team-work and quick, short passing".
But critics accuse Mr. Zhang of making a pact with a political leadership that has a long record of restricting artistic freedom, playing the role of favored court artist — a kind of Chinese Leni Riefenstahl, creating beautiful backdrops for iron-fisted rulers.
It's artistic game playing, highly pleasurable up to a point.
The play opens in the Harvey Theater on March 5 with six cast members, including Mark Rylance, the artistic director, playing all 30 characters.
Recently genetic algorithms have been used in a wide variety of fields as diverse as creating artistic masterpieces, playing expert checkers and designing robots.
In the same decades, the Boston daguerreotypists Southworth and Hawes managed to make rich and expressive images, perhaps because they were willing to indulge themselves in artistic experimentation — playing with the new medium to see what it could do.
