Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live." I resent that artists are viewed as sponges that simply soak in "our time" and spew it out on canvas. Artists have in many cultures been expected to produce and have produced art that depicts an "ideal state" of what ought to be. Today, there are artists depicting what ought to be, but they have no listeners among people who are aware of our times and acknowledge their awareness...
...that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
Porgy and Bess is only a moderate and intermittent success as a musical show; as an attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure. The fault is not entirely Producer Goldwyn's. The original Broadway musical ('TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort...
Unlike the oil and sculpture exhibits, the drawings shown were selected from an open national competition. Here 156 artists each had one or two works on display. Among the best artists were Wendell Fore Jr., Howard Hardy, Lawrence Kupferman (again), and Pietro Lazzari. A fine example of representational art was Frank L. Viner's "Man"; of non-representational, Tetsuo Ochikubo...
July 23: Otto J. Brendel: "The Classical Style in Modern Art...