Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handle, themselves, the tools and materials of the artist, in studio practice with line, forms and colors which is intended less as preparation for a professional career than as a means of gaining insight into the line, form and colors of the great masters. Too often this analytical approach becomes merely a series of five-finger exercises, an attempt to put the Principles of Design through their paces, to make drawings and paintings which will be illustrations of basic principles of order, not an attempt to explore the relation between what the artist wants to say, to describe, to express...
Formed to enable students to achieve a broader approach to art through creative work and study groups, the Harvard Art Students' League, with a charter membership of 30, follows the Harvard Radio Workshop as the second new organization this year in the field of artistic expression...
Winchell defended his column, "My attitude may seem a bit pompous to you but when you consider the stuff most of the columnist do include in their work, my approach can be excused. The ties, splits, and expectancies are of minor interest to me, and a close glance at my column will show that they are put in the background by my editorializing...
...Pleasant words are more effective. When children refused to dress a doll, the teacher got much better results by saying "Please do" than by scolding: "I don't understand why you refuse. . . . You shouldn't refuse to dress the doll." Exception: to the pleasant approach one peewee responded: "Nuts...
Last week the metallurgical journal Metal Progress commented on the researches of Professor Daniel Hanson of England's University of Birmingham, who had divided creep into four stages. These are elastic stretch (like rubber); plastic flow (like mud); slower plastic flow; approach to fracture. Professor Hanson's theory of fracture is that the metal atoms, under continuing mechanical stress plus their own agitation due to heat, are moved one by one to new positions so that the whole structure is weakened. When enough atoms are thus individually moved, the metal breaks...