He is clearly a man of art.
"Being solely a man of art," Richard Wagner once sighed self-indulgently, "I can only lead an artificial life, like a tropical flower in a conservatory".
C. Kintzler offers the following commentary: "the man of science knows how to explain the fabric of nature and mind, the man of art knows how to represent these mechanisms on stage, and the man of taste knows how to be delighted by the illusion involved" in her book on Jean-Philippe Rameau.
701 China 761 Xi'an, China Wang Wei, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Wei, also called Wang Youcheng, courtesy name (zi) Mojie (born 701, Qi county, Shanxi province, China died 761, Chang'an [now Xi'an], Shaanxi province) one of the most famous men of arts and letters during the Tang dynasty, one of the golden ages of Chinese cultural history.
The angry old men of art history have been summoned from their pre-Christmas port to splutter that we have every right to refer to Muslims by an archaic Victorian word if we like.
True, they wear the sort of chic, monochromatic outfits so in vogue these days and toss around words like "deconstruction". But mostly the men of "Art," appealingly embodied by Alan Alda, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina, wouldn't have seemed out of place on a New York stage in the early 1960's, when the urbane sketches of Mike Nichols and Elaine May were the last word in comic sophistication.
"Vladimir Vladimirovich is not, generally, a man of the arts," Iksanov admitted with care.
As a wild man of the arts who had never even heard of "La Bohème," Mr. Tian led midnight raids into a long-closed library.
He began as a playwright and a man of the arts, and his earliest friends in the non-Communist West, back in cold war times, leaned in pacifist and anticapitalist directions, artsy-style.
Boris Johnson tries to present himself as a cultivated man of the arts, a fleshy repository of all that is good in the Western tradition.
