Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...excellent artifice, ingenious technical device, promising experimentation. But after all, this is as it should be. The presence of these things even in overflowing measure does not argue a necessary absence of sincerity. For, besides the two sorts of sincerity mentioned by this editorial writer as possible in art--the sincerity born of experience and that born of imagination--there appears to be a third, the sincerity, namely, which is born of a delight in mere making and shaping. This delight and this sincerity are of a lower order certainly, but they are prerequisite. Romeo chants his real love...
...Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its gallery for about a week one of the finest Florentine paintings that has come to America in recent years. It is the well-known large tondo, painted in oils on panel, of the "Madonna Adoring the Child," a typical Florentine work of the late 15th century, by Piero di Lorenzo, known as Piero di Cosimo (1462-1520). It will be recalled that Piero di Cosimo is chosen by George Eliot in "Romola" as the typical Florentine artist...
...judges were Dr. John Hyatt Brewer, conductor of the Apollo. Club of Brooklyn; Dr. Frank Damroach, director of the Institute of Musical Art, and Mr. Frank Woodruff...
...definitely decided upon. "Barnum Was Right" is the name of the play, which was written by S. P. Sears '17 and R. E. Sherwood '18. It is in a prologue and two acts, and deals with the efforts of the Spirit of the Movies to gain recognition among the arts on Mt. Olympus. Jupiter is called upon to decide, and professing ignorance of the movies, is led to the earth by the Spirit of the Movies to see them and judge their claims to a place among the arts. While on earth Jupiter meets and falls in love with...
...revival of a special competition for the art department will be a feature of the work this spring. The men in this department will design the covers and make up the picture pages and will occasionally be called upon to draw a serious cartoon. The photographic department will take the largest number of men, as the various special numbers during the second half-year will call for more pictures...