Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shell is a big one, averaging 184 pounds and 6 ft., 3 in. Stroke John Donald and number two Art Holcombe are the only men who have had no previous experience in a shell, and after a fall of rowing this is no longer a disadvantage...
...Busch-Reisinger this month there is an exhibition devoted to two such titles. One is romanticism the other its successor, naturalism. I hesitate to say romanticism and naturalism in German art, because there is a good deal more attitude than art here, more description than substance...
...surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...question of art, the phenomenon is sad enough. The drabbest epitaph of all is that the show is generally an unrelieved bore. The psychological implications, however, are more unhappy still. This all helps a great deal to understand why an advanced people of intellectual attainment have been known to find themselves hysterically shrieking Sieg Heil! to an enraged psychotic with delusions of grandeur...
Sight and Insight, by Alexander Eliot. With love and 20/20 vision, an art critic looks at the life of art and the art of life...